Linux

CrackinDomes

Giving it a ride. Never messed with it after all these years. Figure give it a run and see whats its about. Need to learn it. So I can play around with SteamOS when it comes.

Rig:

Processor - AMD 965 BE @ 4.0ghz
Cooler - Coolmaster V6
Motherboard - MSI 870A Fuzion
Power Supply - Antec 450 Silent Dual 12v Rail
Memory - 4 GB's OCZ Gold 1333
Hard Drives - Corsair Force Gt 120gb SSD
Graphic Cards - GIGABYTE HD 6850 1GB GDDR5
Monitors - 22 inch 1680 x 1050
Operating System - Elemetary OS Linux

Thing is SUPER fast. Boot times and response times are amazing.

Linux I am messing with at the moment is: http://elementaryos.org .

Plan to take a run with the following as well:

http://fedoraproject.org/

http://www.ubuntu.com/

http://zorin-os.com/

AwfulFallout

enjoy, i installed it on all of my windows xp devices, it's good for being free, edit: also got my boot time on my laptop to 5 seconds

http://www.linuxmint.com/

add this to your list

CrackinDomes

AwfulFallout wrote: »

enjoy, i installed it on all of my windows xp devices, it's good for being free, edit: also got my boot time on my laptop to 5 seconds

http://www.linuxmint.com/

add this to your list

Ahh yes mint. Heard about that one as well. Thanks for dropping the name of that one.

Cinnamon

MATE

KDE

Xfce

Which one do you suggest?

CrackinDomes

Also in your opinion which one do you recommend overall from all the distro's?

CrackinDomes

Another buddy told me to check this one out as well: http://crunchbang.org/

[LobsterMts]

all the linux distros listed in here are absolute bullcrap (except mint)

as much as I hate neckbeardism, gentoo is the distro to go

madanki

[MOD]LobsterMts wrote: »

all the linux distros listed in here are absolute bullcrap (except mint)

as much as I hate neckbeardism, gentoo is the distro to go

Gentoo = Boot time - 2 seconds less

AwfulFallout

CrackinDomes wrote: »

Ahh yes mint. Heard about that one as well. Thanks for dropping the name of that one.

Cinnamon

MATE

KDE

Xfce

Which one do you suggest?

i believe xfce works better on older systems or systems like netbooks, kde is more old school, most popular and cinnamon is newer and comes with newer features i suspect, comes with bugs though, i am not really too educated on the differences, but i was told to download either kde or cinnamon, i asked how most people decided, and it came down to preference really, for linux people kde vs cin/gnome is just like osx vs win, i think kde supports multiple monitors more stable, in your case that might mean something to you, however i would get both and explore between cin and kde, i heard mate just doesn't compare to those two as well

CrackinDomes

AwfulFallout wrote: »

i believe xfce works better on older systems or systems like netbooks, kde is more old school, most popular and cinnamon is newer and comes with newer features i suspect, comes with bugs though, i am not really too educated on the differences, but i was told to download either kde or cinnamon, i asked how most people decided, and it came down to preference really, for linux people kde vs cin/gnome is just like osx vs win, i think kde supports multiple monitors more stable, in your case that might mean something to you, however i would get both and explore between cin and kde, i heard mate just doesn't compare to those two as well

Thanks again for the insight.

Fast_wind

as fallout posted, mint is the way to go

i run it on an oldish macbook