windows 8

[Guest tx2sturgis]

mint 14 was just released today, downloaded both mate & cinnamon to try, (still running from a boot CD realizing its slower) heck, I even opened up a terminal window just for old times sakes, haven't used a unix/dos command line in some time.

 

Have you had a chance to look thru the software store?

[meach]

Have you had a chance to look thru the software store?

 

Not sure what "software store" you are referring to. Did go ahead and install mint to run along side my WIN Vista laptop. Got a few win apps I use, once I find adequate replacements I'll ditch vista. So far mint is great. One funny minor glitch, I kept accidently hitting the "hot" corner with mouse before I knew it was there and my screen would do crazy things. I couldn't figure out what was going on, had to google about workspace and found info on the "hot spot".Kinda cool to be able to quickly switch between screens.

 

Did look at software in "Software Manager" at all the stuff out there, plenty to keep me busy.

[LilBeaver]

I run Scientific Linux on one of the main boxes used for my physics research... Yup, this high dollar piece of hardware has Pentium 3 933 and a whopping 256 mb of ram!

[Kirby]

I've been running Mint 12 for a couple of years now and I'm never going back to Winders! I figure when something works, you stick with it.

[Dave77459]

I run Scientific Linux on one of the main boxes used for my physics research... Yup, this high dollar piece of hardware has Pentium 3 933 and a whopping 256 mb of ram!

 

Show off!

FWIW, I run Ubuntu on the desktop and Android on the tablets. I do sometimes dual boot into Win7 because Garmin Basecamp needs it. Otherwise, trouble-free Linux for me (at home). Speaking of trouble-free, I understand they run OS/2 on the MTA turnstiles, and they only reboot once a decade, whether they need it or not.

 

We're upgrading to Win 8 at the office, because we do development and we need to stay ahead of the clients. We're doing it mostly for Windows Phone 8, believe it or not.

 

Dave

[Guest tx2sturgis]

I run Scientific Linux on one of the main boxes used for my physics research... Yup, this high dollar piece of hardware has Pentium 3 933 and a whopping 256 mb of ram!

 

Good to know that the university's research division is well-funded.

 

[Guest tx2sturgis]

Not sure what "software store" you are referring to.... One funny minor glitch, I kept accidently hitting the "hot" corner with mouse before I knew it was there and my screen would do crazy things. I couldn't figure out what was going on, had to google about workspace and found info on the "hot spot".Kinda cool to be able to quickly switch between screens.

 

Did look at software in "Software Manager" at all the stuff out there, plenty to keep me busy.

 

 

Yes, you found it, the Software Manager. Software Center in Ubuntu...same thing.

 

Yeah, workspaces. Those are cool, and Ubuntu 12 has 4 default spaces, I think Mint Cinnamon has a default setting of 2...Yeah the hot corner can be changed, but if you get used to it, it is cool. You can put less used programs over on the other workspace and refer to them as needed. You can also right click on the top header of any open program window and select 'move to ____workspace', or when the workspaces are open, you can drag a window from one workspace to the other. Its easy.

 

I will list a few apps that I have loaded up and enjoy:

 

Google Chrome Browser

Shotwell Photo Manager

Audacity (audio client)

VLC (video client)

gPodder (podcasting client)

Hotot (twitter client)

Pidgin (IM chat client)

Radio Tray (radio tuner)

Variety (automatic wallpaper changer)

Skype

Dropbox (file synchronizer)

Minitube (youtube viewer/grabber)

Team Viewer (remote desktop client)

Weather Indicator (little temperature readout!)

 

 

Included in most distros:

 

Firefox (browser)

System Monitor (live resource statistics)

Thunderbird (mail client)

Screenshot (screen grabber)

Backup (backup)

Disk Utility (formatting etc)

Transmission (bit torrent client)

 

And many others of course.

 

 

ALL FREE!

 

 

[LilBeaver]

Show off!

[...]

 

I do what I can

 

Good to know that the university's research division is well-funded.

 

 

Well, actually this is one of the machines at a national lab... My workstation and servers at home are a bit more up to date than this puppy...

[Guest tx2sturgis]

I do what I can

 

 

 

Well, actually this is one of the machines at a national lab... My workstation and servers at home are a bit more up to date than this puppy...

 

 

Ah...Puppy Linux. Havent tried it yet.

 

 

http://www.puppylinux.com/

[LilBeaver]

Ah...Puppy Linux. Havent tried it yet.

 

 

http://www.puppylinux.com/

 

Well played sir, well played.

[meach]

Yes, you found it, the Software Manager. Software Center in Ubuntu...same thing.

 

Yeah, workspaces. Those are cool, and Ubuntu 12 has 4 default spaces, I think Mint Cinnamon has a default setting of 2...Yeah the hot corner can be changed, but if you get used to it, it is cool. You can put less used programs over on the other workspace and refer to them as needed. You can also right click on the top header of any open program window and select 'move to ____workspace', or when the workspaces are open, you can drag a window from one workspace to the other. Its easy.

 

I will list a few apps that I have loaded up and enjoy:

 

Google Chrome Browser

Shotwell Photo Manager

Audacity (audio client)

VLC (video client)

gPodder (podcasting client)

Hotot (twitter client)

Pidgin (IM chat client)

Radio Tray (radio tuner)

Variety (automatic wallpaper changer)

Skype

Dropbox (file synchronizer)

Minitube (youtube viewer/grabber)

Team Viewer (remote desktop client)

Weather Indicator (little temperature readout!)

 

 

Included in most distros:

 

Firefox (browser)

System Monitor (live resource statistics)

Thunderbird (mail client)

Screenshot (screen grabber)

Backup (backup)

Disk Utility (formatting etc)

Transmission (bit torrent client)

 

And many others of course.

 

 

ALL FREE!

 

 

 

some on your list I'm familiar with as I've used the WIN versions over the years, I'm closer to cutting the WIN cord as I just installed WINE which allows WIN programs to run within linux, gonna install a couple WIN programs I have and see how they do, then I may just reformat the hard drive to total linux.