What Are You Doing Right Now
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Plus when you're on a Linux Distro you get a better feel for how it works and what challenges may still remain.
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Thinking of trying Linux as my main driver and have windows as a boot option
Does it have to be a boot option? Making it a VM is way more convenient if you don't need to have a passthrough graphics card.
While I agree (because 'rip the bandaid off already!'), configuring a T2 VM on a personal computer kind of blows, even with as good as VirtualBox is.
Using Boxes on Fedora or Ubuntu doesn't work well either and feels clunky.
I just used KVM to make it a full T1 on my laptop.
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Thinking of trying Linux as my main driver and have windows as a boot option
Does it have to be a boot option? Making it a VM is way more convenient if you don't need to have a passthrough graphics card.
While I agree (because 'rip the bandaid off already!'), configuring a T2 VM on a personal computer kind of blows, even with as good as VirtualBox is.
Using Boxes on Fedora or Ubuntu doesn't work well either and feels clunky.
I just used KVM to make it a full T1 on my laptop.
Yeah, there is that option of course too (I didn't mean to say it wasn't). I personally find the experience weird and having two distinct environments seems be better. Obviously this is opinion.
Using separated systems seems to actually get you to use one or the other, and that is why I think having them separated by the bootloader makes for a smoother transition.
Granted I'm probably the only person that believes that....
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Digging through group policy objects.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Digging through group policy objects.
I had that fun last week. Realized the biggest one isn't working like it should, and the client wouldn't want it to work how it was setup. Someone before me really buggered that one up.
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Using separated systems seems to actually get you to use one or the other, and that is why I think having them separated by the bootloader makes for a smoother transition.
Granted I'm probably the only person that believes that....
This is what i'm thinking, have it as a separate system will "force" me to find solutions for isssues.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Thinking of trying Linux as my main driver and have windows as a boot option
Does it have to be a boot option? Making it a VM is way more convenient if you don't need to have a passthrough graphics card.
I agree, much better that way. Then you only turn on Windows for a task, then disable. You don't have to reboot to go in between.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Using separated systems seems to actually get you to use one or the other, and that is why I think having them separated by the bootloader makes for a smoother transition.
Granted I'm probably the only person that believes that....
This is what i'm thinking, have it as a separate system will "force" me to find solutions for isssues.
Not likely. It tends to make you "have to" go to Windows and once there, you have no way to find a solution because you turned Linux off.
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I've done this many times over the years, I always end up back on Windows as that's what I support.
My advice would be to boot into the OS you support and have VMs of the OS's you want to learn.
I've done it the other way around, and found it too inefficient to work with.
For example, I needed to print something, so I had to go and google how to install a print driver, then chase up some hacks to get it to work. When if I was in the OS I knew, I could have printed immediately.
If you don't move around, it would be much easier, as you setup once and you're good to go. I move around, so it was a continuous hassle.
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continuing the fun with wsus...
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Finally done dealing with setting up new cable modem, cable box and bringing down the TV from upstairs.
Lightning struck a tree in the neighbors yard that touched the cable line, sending high voltage taking out the cable modem, shorting out the HDMI output in the cable box and eventually "frying" the TV.
Ugh what a night.
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What Linux desktop os would people recommend?
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setting up Proxmox server
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What Linux desktop os would people recommend?
Fedora Desktop or Ubuntu Desktop are likely top recommendations or the derivatives.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What Linux desktop os would people recommend?
These days to start off, Ubuntu. It's what everyone knows. Fedora is fantastic, but for your first foray stick to vanilla Ubuntu. It's not my favourite, nor the best. But the broad support and available knowledge is unrivaled.
There are so many worth playing with. Deepin, Elementary, Solus, Fedora, Suse Tumbleweed, Kubuntu, and so forth.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What Linux desktop os would people recommend?
I would look at Fedora or Pop_OS if you're wanting something Ubuntu based.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What Linux desktop os would people recommend?
I would look at Fedora or Pop_OS if you're wanting something Ubuntu based.
Fedora is a direct competitor with Ubuntu, in no way is it Ubuntu based. Fedora is a "root" distro, a base from which others are built. It is based on nothing, it is built from scratch.
In the Ubuntu world, Debian is Fedora's counterpart. It is a "root" distro based on nothing and built from scratch. On it is built Ubuntu.
Pop_OS is decent, but I would avoid it as a newbie because it is not as polished as Ubuntu and lacks the broad compatibility and isn't as easy to use because it is more locked down. We tried it, it is nice, but it has problems that something based on Ubuntu shouldn't have and not things I'd want someone just learning Linux to deal with.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What Linux desktop os would people recommend?
I would look at Fedora or Pop_OS if you're wanting something Ubuntu based.
Fedora is a direct competitor with Ubuntu, in no way is it Ubuntu based. Fedora is a "root" distro, a base from which others are built. It is based on nothing, it is built from scratch.
In the Ubuntu world, Debian is Fedora's counterpart. It is a "root" distro based on nothing and built from scratch. On it is built Ubuntu.
Pop_OS is decent, but I would avoid it as a newbie because it is not as polished as Ubuntu and lacks the broad compatibility and isn't as easy to use because it is more locked down. We tried it, it is nice, but it has problems that something based on Ubuntu shouldn't have and not things I'd want someone just learning Linux to deal with.
I fail to see where I said Fedora is Ubuntu based. Though I suppose if you misread the use of "or" you could come to that conclusion. Also, it sounds like you and I have had different experiences with Pop_OS.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What Linux desktop os would people recommend?
I would look at Fedora or Pop_OS if you're wanting something Ubuntu based.
Fedora is a direct competitor with Ubuntu, in no way is it Ubuntu based. Fedora is a "root" distro, a base from which others are built. It is based on nothing, it is built from scratch.
In the Ubuntu world, Debian is Fedora's counterpart. It is a "root" distro based on nothing and built from scratch. On it is built Ubuntu.
Pop_OS is decent, but I would avoid it as a newbie because it is not as polished as Ubuntu and lacks the broad compatibility and isn't as easy to use because it is more locked down. We tried it, it is nice, but it has problems that something based on Ubuntu shouldn't have and not things I'd want someone just learning Linux to deal with.
I fail to see where I said Fedora is Ubuntu based. Though I suppose if you misread the use of "or" you could come to that conclusion. Also, it sounds like you and I have had different experiences with Pop_OS.
Or, yeah, I thought it was (Fedora or Pop_OS) if you want something Ubuntu based.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What Linux desktop os would people recommend?
Echoing anything ubuntu or fedora based as the support is great and the skills / knowledge is relevant to corporate / real-world IT.
Personal preference for the last while has been Manjaro (arch-based) with Cinnamon DE since it's rolling release, everything just works and you have access to just about any software you want with AUR enabled.
Linux Mint is great to learn on too, great support from their community and the greater ubuntu and debian communities for upstream issues.
