4 Sep
2020
4 Sep
'20
6:07 a.m.
On Thursday 03 September 2020 20:55:40 J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2020-09-03 22:41:23 Michael wrote:
Offhand -- and, keeping in mind that your intended audience is a total
noobie -- not only a Linux virgin, but also somebody who would never be able
to sort through some of the issues we discuss here (my recent networking
issues come to mind, or discussions of TDE with at least a half-dozen
different OSs -- then I would say [here he pauses for effect], only a couple
ready-made TDE Linux discs stand out.
AntiX worked quite well, was lightweight, ready from first boot for a new
user. It wouldn't be my own choice, because it did some weird things with
permissions inside my home folder. Also, it seemed designed for laptop users,
and I found it difficult to create custom mount points for my internal hard
drives. But for somebody who just wants to get used to running Linux, and to
be able to run a good desktop, I would pick this for my #1.
Q4OS (I think I got that name right). Again, all the basic ingredients were
there, for a first-time Linux user, with the bonus of a good desktop. What I
didn't like was almost from the start: I couldn't create my passwords by
using weird characters; this distro would only accept alphanumeric passwords.
Maybe, if I gave it more of a chance, I would have discovered that it could
be changed or circumvented; but I was right away put off.
All the others that I've tried so far don't deliver the experience; which is,
we would want the user to keep using it, rather than giving up in despair.
(And I might have missed a few good ones that are out there, since I haven't
been actively looking at new distros, now that I have what I want.)
As I say, not what I would choose for myself; but what I believe would keep a
new user using Linux and TDE.
Bill
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On Thursday 03 September 2020 09:59:50 pm J
Leslie Turriff wrote:
Well, I was really looking to use one of the ready-made Trinity ISOs. It
looks like maybe focal is the latest one? (This business of names instead
of release numbers isn't very friendly IMO.) Is it reasonably stable? I
don't want this windoze user to have a bad experience.
Leslie
My brother, a long-time windoze user, suggested
to me last night that
he might give Linux a try. Looking at the Trinity website, I see a
plethora of Live Disk images for various distros available; but which
one is most likely to give him a stable and versatile experience? He
is already somewhat skeptical, having seen my occasional struggles with
multimedia issues on my OpenSuSE machine*. (This opportunity will also
give me some exposure to Debian-based distros, a probable plus.)
Leslie
* (OpenSuSE does not seem to think that multimedia is important, and
its support is somewhat sketchy compared with home-computer oriented
distros).
MX Linux
https://mxlinux.org/
Huge dev team that has made it a really easy user experience. It's very
easy to build a Live USB (Xfce). And the MX Package Installer simplifies
adding many popular applications. TDE can be added to the MXPI
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/MX_Linux_Trinity_Repository_Installation_
In structions
If you're interested, I'll ask in the MX forum what the steps would be to
add TDE to their Live USB.
Best,
Michael