Awesome ā I think I may explore this approach. Thanks for the tip!
Iāve been dinking around with xubuntu on an old laptop. Iām not too impressed.
There was a story recently where Linus was quoted as saying that Linux is not ready for the desktop āyet.ā He then went on to bemoan the bloat (his word) in the Linux kernel, of which he is the god. Overall it didnāt give me a very favorable impression of the state of Linux.
Xubuntu is just one variant of Linux, and judging by the screenshots on their website, itās an old-style Linux distribution that we might have seen 5 or 10 years ago.
So while all cars are not 1985 Plymouth Reliants, all Linuxes arenāt Xubuntu, and I wouldnāt reject Linux out of hand based on soley evaluating it. You certainly can , but I wouldnāt.
The distributions of Linux that Iāve been using (Ubuntu, CentoOS) are terrible as desktop operating systems, but Linux has become the de facto standard Unix (like) operating system, and so far Iāve not found anything that compares when it comes to āgetting things doneā at scale and beyond the desktop.
Having said that, thereās almost nothing that most day to day users would find of genuine use beyond curiosity, unless they really immerse themselves into it for a while.
tl;dr: If your first reaction to a problem isnāt, āIām going to write a little program to solve that,ā then Linux probably isnāt going to be of much interest to you
You are absolutely correct, but when youāre using a 10-year-old laptop you go for something lightweight. I tried all three of the Linux Mintās first, then lubuntu, which I didnāt like at all. I tried Ubuntu but while it was pretty, it was too much for my machine. I also tried Elementary, which seems to be trying to appeal to Mac users, but it didnāt move me.
I worked on X for years and xubuntu looks like X, so itās familiar. Iām keeping it around, at least for a while, but I donāt know what Iāll do with it yet.
Obviously Iāve only tried a small subset of the (seemingly) jillions of distros out there, but (to me, at least) they all look kinda similar, and I canāt see myself switching any time soon. I canāt see any advantage other than $$$.
This is how Linux grew up, and thatās why it feels so disconnected. Just my $.02.
Like several other folks here, I keep a copy of Windows 10 around inside a VM, although my need for it isnāt as great as it used to be. Iām also trying out Linux Mint, and considering using that as a basis for doing web development work.
Iām playing the Witcher 3 from a a win 10 instal on an external Samsung t5
Oh! I didnāt know that you could install Windows on an external disk! (I assume BootCamp?)
yep, even if itās been a bumpy road for me.
First Bootcamp refused to partition the internal ssd with a fresh Catalina install.
So I found these two videos
but both VMWare and parallels refused to recognise the external disk connected to the Mac as described in the videos.
Luckily (well, luckily just for this specific matter) I have access to a windows machine so I used that to run the application that allow to install on the external disk.
Once itās done it runs like a charm (I run it on a 2016 MacBook Pro 2.7GHz core i7 quad core with 16 gb of ram)
Iāve been wanting to try this. Look forward to having a decent tutorial.
Thanks! Iāll have to give this a try!