Achilleus Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 I've got some issues with using osx on this laptop so I decided I'm just going to go with linux. Ubuntu, redhat, and gnome are the only ones that pop in to my head from memory. Ubuntu is much more recent out of all these, I haven't used linux in about 10 years. Things have changed a lot since 10 years ago imo haha. I originally wanted OSX because of the artistic looks of it and the eye candy, I design/develop web sites and do a lot of image work. I've been looking at developing drivers too, I might try my luck at making a driver or something to solve this PCI-E problem that a lot of us have been experiencing with OSX. So my question in a nutshell is which distro of linux is the most artistic and has the most simplistic GUI? Lots of eye candy too Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62696-which-nix/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmr Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 I've got some issues with using osx on this laptop so I decided I'm just going to go with linux. Ubuntu, redhat, and gnome are the only ones that pop in to my head from memory. Ubuntu is much more recent out of all these, I haven't used linux in about 10 years. Things have changed a lot since 10 years ago imo haha. I originally wanted OSX because of the artistic looks of it and the eye candy, I design/develop web sites and do a lot of image work. I've been looking at developing drivers too, I might try my luck at making a driver or something to solve this PCI-E problem that a lot of us have been experiencing with OSX. So my question in a nutshell is which distro of linux is the most artistic and has the most simplistic GUI? Lots of eye candy too Just try out some of the distros. Most of them have a live cds, so you can try them out and decide for yourself. I will recommend Fedora and Ubuntu. openSuse and Sabayon are also worth trying. The eye candy comes from compiz-fusion. There are guides for installing it on the more popular distros. The problem is that there are currently problems with the drivers (for example, series 10 of the nvidia series are unstable on my machine, however series 9 works perfectly for me with some quirks). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62696-which-nix/#findComment-444142 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shagbag Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 If you plan on doing a lot of 'image work' you'll want to check out the following applications: GIMP Inkscape GIMP doesn't do SVG but Inkscape does. Photoshop only partially runs on linux but you have to install it using WINE. Even then it's CS1 (or something like that). Almost all distros have GIMP and Inkscape in their repos so even if they don't come 'installed' on the LiveCD/default install you can just pull them from the repo. Gnome is a Desktop Environment, not a distro. KDE is another popular DE, as is XFCE. There are many others for you to choose from. I've never known a distro to limit your choice of DEs. You just have to install them from the repos if your default install is not the DE you want. I'd recommend you start with something you already know. As you've had experience with linux I'm guessing that was with an early version of Red Hat. Red Hat recently released RHEL 5 Desktop - its first Desktop linux - but it costs USD40pa for a basic license. Fedora is the 'community' edition of the Red Hat code. It's not the same as RHEL 5 Desktop, but it's very similar. Fedora 7 is the most recent edition so you may want to check that out. I run Arch Linux. It's awesome but then it took me around 12 months before I became competent enough with it to fix any problems that arose. I like Arch because it's a 'rolling' distro - ie. there's no 6-monthly 'version' upgrade profile. Just one 'pacman -Syu' and my system is fully up to date. That said, everyone has their own personal preferences and most distros are as good as the next. What separates the good from the bad are (a) community support, and ( package management. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62696-which-nix/#findComment-444288 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achilleus Posted September 8, 2007 Author Share Posted September 8, 2007 If you plan on doing a lot of 'image work' you'll want to check out the following applications: GIMP Inkscape GIMP doesn't do SVG but Inkscape does. Photoshop only partially runs on linux but you have to install it using WINE. Even then it's CS1 (or something like that). Almost all distros have GIMP and Inkscape in their repos so even if they don't come 'installed' on the LiveCD/default install you can just pull them from the repo. Gnome is a Desktop Environment, not a distro. KDE is another popular DE, as is XFCE. There are many others for you to choose from. I've never known a distro to limit your choice of DEs. You just have to install them from the repos if your default install is not the DE you want. I'd recommend you start with something you already know. As you've had experience with linux I'm guessing that was with an early version of Red Hat. Red Hat recently released RHEL 5 Desktop - its first Desktop linux - but it costs USD40pa for a basic license. Fedora is the 'community' edition of the Red Hat code. It's not the same as RHEL 5 Desktop, but it's very similar. Fedora 7 is the most recent edition so you may want to check that out. I run Arch Linux. It's awesome but then it took me around 12 months before I became competent enough with it to fix any problems that arose. I like Arch because it's a 'rolling' distro - ie. there's no 6-monthly 'version' upgrade profile. Just one 'pacman -Syu' and my system is fully up to date. That said, everyone has their own personal preferences and most distros are as good as the next. What separates the good from the bad are (a) community support, and ( package management. Gnome is a Desktop Environment, not a distro. Heh, shows ya what I know xD The last time I used linux was when my dad put linux on my computer and hid all the window cd's, he was trying to force me to learn it lol. Man, that was like 10-15 years ago haha. I think I'll probably just go with Ubuntu, it seems to be pretty popular and cnet recommends it too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62696-which-nix/#findComment-444601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achilleus Posted September 9, 2007 Author Share Posted September 9, 2007 Well I've got ubuntu installed, but I've come to the same problem with internet that I did with osx. After being so angry(at acer) I almost threw a bottle of ketchup at the window last night, I realized my audio wasn't even working. I'm trying to figure out if I can fix this or not =\ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62696-which-nix/#findComment-444990 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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