Installation frustrations

[Phil Waclawski]

I myself rather like kubuntu for my laptops/desktop  but that is just my
preference.  I love CentOS for servers (well, not sure about 7 yet)....but
for desktops...nope.

Phil W

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you consider ubuntu run mint instead. Then there is Linux Mint Debian
> Edition.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
> > wrote:
>
>> Not sure if this will help, as I know nothing about Tracker-miner nor
>> CentOS....
>>
>>
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/346211/tracker-store-and-tracker-miner-fs-eating-up-my-cpu-on-every-startup
>>
>> Have you tried Debian or Ubuntu?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:16 PM, IscreamKid <iscreamkid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Saturday, at the Installfest, despite cautions from Thomas, I installed
>>> CentOS on my new computer.
>>>
>>> The install went well from the standpoint of reallocating the partitions
>>> and getting Grub to recognize both CentOS and Win 7.
>>>
>>> When I started working with it I loaded on my files.
>>> Files that took forty minutes to backup took two hours to load on a
>>> faster system.
>>> The culprit  seems to be Tracker-miner.
>>>
>>> It continues to drag the system down when I am trying to do other things.
>>>
>>> I have no idea why I need an application on here to, supposedly help me
>>> find files.
>>> In all of the years I have worked with Linux I can think of only three
>>> instances where I have used find to locate a file, and it worked nicely,
>>> thank you.
>>>
>>> Now I have a system that uses all of its resources to track files I will
>>> likely never ask for. Grrrrrrrr.
>>>
>>> After that the change of Gnome and KDE to eliminate my virtual desktops
>>> is unimportant.
>>>
>>> Would anyone like to suggest a better distro that will actually run and
>>> perhaps has more than four desktops, while running Office Libre, and plays
>>> You Tube videos in a browser?
>>>
>>> Harold
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