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| - | ~~socialite~~ | + | ====== Linux Desktops |
| - | ====== Linux Computers | + | |
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| - | [[The Pi Computer]]\\ | + | |
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| - | [[The Zero Dollar Lab Project]] | + | |
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| - | ===== Linux Desktops ===== | + | |
| I have been experimenting with Linux for about ten years now. Back then, you read a lot about Linux, learned about Linus Torvalds and started using words like distro and abbreviating Microsoft M$. Then you either decided on a distro and found hardware that it would run on or looked hard at your hardware and then found a distro that would play nice with it, you hoped. The two killers were network and video. Hope and pray that your video card was Linux friendly because it is really hard to troubleshoot a video driver when you can't see the screen. Did I mention you needed to learn to love the command line again? | I have been experimenting with Linux for about ten years now. Back then, you read a lot about Linux, learned about Linus Torvalds and started using words like distro and abbreviating Microsoft M$. Then you either decided on a distro and found hardware that it would run on or looked hard at your hardware and then found a distro that would play nice with it, you hoped. The two killers were network and video. Hope and pray that your video card was Linux friendly because it is really hard to troubleshoot a video driver when you can't see the screen. Did I mention you needed to learn to love the command line again? | ||
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| Yes you have. It is Chrome for Linux. | Yes you have. It is Chrome for Linux. | ||
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| - | Need to type up a paper, Google Docs. I am not a big fan of Google Docs, especially the spreadsheet program. I installed LibreOffice instead. | + | Need to type up a paper, Google Docs. |
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| - | "There are no games for Linux." | ||
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| - | Dropbox is installed, just enter your account information and your files will start syncing. There is an iPod compatible MP3 player. A Photoshop worthy image editor. For a bare bones system, you get a complete machine. | ||
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| - | Peppermint makes use of a program called Ice. Ice creates a singe site browser to a webpage. For example, you could create an email " | ||
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| - | **Gotcha!** There is one //little// Gotcha. Peppermint installs DuckDuckGo as its default search engine. DuckDuckGo does not track your Internet usage like Google does. But it does produce sponsored results. All of the results are sponsored. The results are slightly different than Google. See below. | ||
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| - | ===== Extras ===== | ||
| - | The Synaptic Package Manager is the default way of loading new programs. Pretty simple really. Look up the program by name, click install, and click apply. | ||
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| - | My collection of Peppermint Wallpaper on [[http:// | ||
| - | Peppermint OS Review on [[http:// | ||
| - | Another review [[http:// | ||
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