Project: Moving main laptop to Korora 25 Desktop
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I will reload to 17.
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@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
I've just gotten Ubuntu 16.04.2 ...
I've got 17.04 running on my laptop.
Any significant reasons or features to go to 17 over the LTS?
More up to date, more fixes. The bigger question is, any benefit to the LTS over the current? Why hold back when they give even more support to the current than to the LTS? The LTS is fine and if your goal is to avoid updating every six months, it mostly makes sense. But it is a desktop and updating is trivial. Why not get the latest and greatest applications and features?
Yeah all great points. I remember you going into detail about that further back. I guess I chose the LTS version because I was thinking more along the lines how Fedora has v26 in alpha... and I suppose I was thinking Ubuntu 17 was alpha or something, I don't know. I haven't been following Ubuntu versions lately so I gave it literally zero thought when hitting the download button.
That's become a problem with the Ubuntu world. Everyone has started using LTS but no one is sure why
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Can't do 17.04. I never make it to a desktop after logging in. It just sits there with the Ubuntu background, desktop never loads (icons & task bar).
So I'll run 16.04.2 instead and just not upgrade. LTS it is until I can run Korora.
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@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Can't do 17.04. I never make it to a desktop after logging in. It just sits there with the Ubuntu background, desktop never loads (icons & task bar).
So I'll run 16.04.2 instead and just not upgrade. LTS it is until I can run Korora.
That's weird, I wonder what they did that broke it.
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@FATeknollogee said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@JaredBusch To get wifi working on your MBP, did you use this guide or another one?
http://blog.scottlowe.org/2017/01/18/apple-mbp-wifi-fedora/
I used this & it worked, I was just curious.I did not need to do anything. But my MBP is a late 2011 model. Not anything close to current.
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@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Can't do 17.04. I never make it to a desktop after logging in. It just sits there with the Ubuntu background, desktop never loads (icons & task bar).
So I'll run 16.04.2 instead and just not upgrade. LTS it is until I can run Korora.
That's weird, I wonder what they did that broke it.
Actually I think it had an issue with my external monitor being plugged in during login. I will try some more things tomorrow.
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Somehow, Korora 25 Gnome installed just fine and is kinda mostly working...
More on this later.
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@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Somehow, Korora 25 Gnome installed just fine and is kinda mostly working...
More on this later.
Odd. But it didn't work before?
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@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Somehow, Korora 25 Gnome installed just fine and is kinda mostly working...
More on this later.
Odd. But it didn't work before?
I honestly don't remember everything I've tried. It's well over 10 different distros. I even tried Gentoo, which was freaking awesome, except my fans were running at 100%... so I didn't put much time into that one, though I'm sure it was an easy fix.
I know I've tried a few different distros that use Gnome, I'm thinking Korora was one of them but I'm not sure anymore. If it didn't work before, and it does now, I've done nothing differently except now I'm dual booting with Win10 since the last try, which shouldn't make any different.
I'm typing this on Korora 25 Gnome now. I can even shutdown properly if I hit ctrl+alt+F1 when it gets stuck.
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@Tim_G Well awesome that it is working. Korora is slowly but surely taking over!
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We are going to be the official Korora community is no time
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@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
We are going to be the official Korora community is no time
Yeah Korora is great. I'd prefer Cinnamon, but I'm starting to get used to Gnome in the same way I had to get used to Windows 8.
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@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
We are going to be the official Korora community is no time
Yeah Korora is great. I'd prefer Cinnamon, but I'm starting to get used to Gnome in the same way I had to get used to Windows 8.
Now that Korora is installed, did you try adding it is as an additional option? Maybe it will work now that things are installed.
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I've literally never in my life added a printer as fast as I just did in Korora 25.
I clicked Printers > add printer > it magically showed up in the list (it's on WiFi) > I clicked on it > added.
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@Dominica did a printer add with her Linux recently and couldn't believe how easy it was compared to Windows. She always had so many issues and suddenly things just worked.
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@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Dominica did a printer add with her Linux recently and couldn't believe how easy it was compared to Windows. She always had so many issues and suddenly things just worked.
Yeah, on Win10... it took forever. And the last time it never even printed. It was iffy before that.
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@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Dominica did a printer add with her Linux recently and couldn't believe how easy it was compared to Windows. She always had so many issues and suddenly things just worked.
Yeah, on Win10... it took forever. And the last time it never even printed. It was iffy before that.
Yup, she was often unable to print till going to Korora. Then everything was rock solid.
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I think I will stick with Gnome over Cinnamon on Korora. Not just because I'm afraid to break my currently working setup, but because it's actually starting to grow on me.
I can actually feel a productivity increase using my computer this way over the standard Windows-like Cinnamon layout.
I like how the "Windows key" on the keyboard shows all your open windows, easy access to other screens, and search. Also moving mouse to upper left hand corner does the same thing.
I don't know, it's more than just that though... if you know what I mean. It seems cleaner too.
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@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
I think I will stick with Gnome over Cinnamon on Korora. Not just because I'm afraid to break my currently working setup, but because it's actually starting to grow on me.
I can actually feel a productivity increase using my computer this way over the standard Windows-like Cinnamon layout.
I like how the "Windows key" on the keyboard shows all your open windows, easy access to other screens, and search. Also moving mouse to upper left hand corner does the same thing.
I don't know, it's more than just that though... if you know what I mean. It seems cleaner too.
Gnome and Unity is pretty much my comfort Desktops. The layout is clean and doesn't have that windows 7 mouse clicking needs.
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I think the majority of my issues are due to the issue the Bumblebee-Project addresses.
Fedora has a Bumblebee Wiki regarding this, which I will try out later (tonight hopefully) and post results.
I still would like to get things in working order, so I can edit my top posts of the whole procedure and end up with a working machine all around.
I can't get far enough with the Korora Cinnamon install to try this, so I will have to get everything going on Gnome desktop first. Then maybe I will try to figure out a way to switch to Cinnamon once I get the graphics crap straightened out.
