Project: Moving main laptop to Korora 25 Desktop
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@matteo-nunziati said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Yeah I know its just my hardware. Its working perfectly fine on my work computer and laptop. That's the whole reason I wanted to make the switch on my personal laptop, because it was working so damn well on those.
Turns out a Fedora distro doesn't like my hardware and I don't have the time to make it work.
I'll probably dual boot later and try straight debian or Ubuntu. Might have better luck with one of those.
If hw is an issue go ubuntu. Debian is more picky
Yeah I will try Ubuntu just to have something that works. I wish I could use my distro of choice though. But I guess if there were hundreds of current versions of Windows none of them would work as great with most hardware either. So I understand the small support scenario.
I'll dual boot with likely Ubuntu until I get Ubuntu 100% working as needed. Then I'll just blow away tje Windows partitions and extend Ubuntu.
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@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@matteo-nunziati said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Yeah I know its just my hardware. Its working perfectly fine on my work computer and laptop. That's the whole reason I wanted to make the switch on my personal laptop, because it was working so damn well on those.
Turns out a Fedora distro doesn't like my hardware and I don't have the time to make it work.
I'll probably dual boot later and try straight debian or Ubuntu. Might have better luck with one of those.
If hw is an issue go ubuntu. Debian is more picky
Yeah I will try Ubuntu just to have something that works. I wish I could use my distro of choice though. But I guess if there were hundreds of current versions of Windows none of them would work as great with most hardware either. So I understand the small support scenario.
I'll dual boot with likely Ubuntu until I get Ubuntu 100% working as needed. Then I'll just blow away tje Windows partitions and extend Ubuntu.
Yeah, same boat. Ubuntu is good enough, and there are different desktop options for it, although I'm just on unity at this point. Works fine, but Korora would be awfully nice.
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@JaredBusch Any other gotchas or things to be aware of during/after the MBP Korora install?
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@FATeknollogee said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@JaredBusch Any other gotchas or things to be aware of during/after the MBP Korora install?
I had to go into the settings and enable the 2 finger right click, but that was it.
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@JaredBusch said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
I had to go into the settings and enable the 2 finger right click, but that was it.
As in tap 2 fingers on the trackpad for right click?
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@FATeknollogee said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@JaredBusch said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
I had to go into the settings and enable the 2 finger right click, but that was it.
As in tap 2 fingers on the trackpad for right click?
Mine worked out of the box.Was disabled on mine. Just had to choose right button.
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I keep using command + c/v to copy and paste. because muscle memory when the brain knows I am on the laptop.
I can remap it if I want, just have not yet. Trying to decide.
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@JaredBusch said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Was disabled on mine. Just had to choose right button.
Sorry, it was also disabled on mine.
2 finger tap (not click) = right click, worked out of the box.I have to say, I've been on Korora (only for a few hours) - still finding my way around, but, I'm pleasantly surprised.
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I dearly wish that I could swipe between workspaces. Have not even googled that yet though.
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Suddenly half the community is running Korora
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@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Suddenly half the community is running Korora
Was going to start a new thread regarding this same "revelation"!
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@FATeknollogee said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Suddenly half the community is running Korora
Was going to start a new thread regarding this same "revelation"!
Go for it
I've tried a lot of desktops and it just speaks to me the most. I'm on it right now. -
@FATeknollogee said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Suddenly half the community is running Korora
Was going to start a new thread regarding this same "revelation"!
We need a roll call
But there are at least five of us suddenly. -
I've just gotten Ubuntu 16.04.2 installed (dual boot). In Windows 10, I shrunk my C volume to give me about 55 GB of unpartitioned space, then rebooted to run the live USB of Ubuntu.
The automatic partitioning is kinda bad, so I will need to fix it to my liking. But that's fine.
It was as easy as selecting a box that pretty much said "Run Ubuntu along side of Windows", and well, here I am. It automatically installed in the unpartitioned space I made before hand.
So far it's working great, though I haven't yet tested everything I want to use. But... I can actually gracefully reboot and shut down my computer now.
I'll give it a day or so and I'll start updating my OP and the reserved areas as I originally had hoped.
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@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
I've just gotten Ubuntu 16.04.2 ...
I've got 17.04 running on my laptop.
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@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
I've just gotten Ubuntu 16.04.2 ...
I've got 17.04 running on my laptop.
Any significant reasons or features to go to 17 over the LTS?
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@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
I've just gotten Ubuntu 16.04.2 ...
I've got 17.04 running on my laptop.
Any significant reasons or features to go to 17 over the LTS?
More up to date, more fixes. The bigger question is, any benefit to the LTS over the current? Why hold back when they give even more support to the current than to the LTS? The LTS is fine and if your goal is to avoid updating every six months, it mostly makes sense. But it is a desktop and updating is trivial. Why not get the latest and greatest applications and features?
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Similar logic to why we use Fedora over CentOS. More up to date, smaller more incremental updates for a smoother long term transition. But unlike Fedora and CentOS where only CentOS gets full support, LTS gets less support than current Ubuntu rather than more. So the weighting is more strongly to current in the Ubuntu world than it is in the Fedora/RH world and we still opt for Fedora there.
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@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
The automatic partitioning is kinda bad, so I will need to fix it to my liking. But that's fine.
How do you layout your manual partitions?
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@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
I've just gotten Ubuntu 16.04.2 ...
I've got 17.04 running on my laptop.
Any significant reasons or features to go to 17 over the LTS?
More up to date, more fixes. The bigger question is, any benefit to the LTS over the current? Why hold back when they give even more support to the current than to the LTS? The LTS is fine and if your goal is to avoid updating every six months, it mostly makes sense. But it is a desktop and updating is trivial. Why not get the latest and greatest applications and features?
Yeah all great points. I remember you going into detail about that further back. I guess I chose the LTS version because I was thinking more along the lines how Fedora has v26 in alpha... and I suppose I was thinking Ubuntu 17 was alpha or something, I don't know. I haven't been following Ubuntu versions lately so I gave it literally zero thought when hitting the download button.
