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     Re: Re: Linux Daily?   
     By: Tony Langdon to Eric Renfro on Thu Jul 25 2019 06:34 pm   
      
    ER>> So who here actually uses Linux as their primary OS for their daily   
    ER>> use? I've been doing so for over 20 years now, through thick and   
    ER>> thin, distro to distro, and not really distro hopping so much as   
    ER>> changing distros every now and then when certain issues arrise, or   
    ER>> wanting to try something different for a while, and end up liking or   
    ER>> not liking depending.   
      
    TL> I have at times, but the truth is that some tasks work better on Windows,   
    TL> some work better on Linux, so I run both side by side. Currently, since   
    TL> they're not in the same place, I'm running the Linux apps remotely via an   
    TL> X server on Windows.   
      
   "Better" than what, exactly? ;) Coming from having used Windows 1.0 to Windows   
   7, OS/2 Warp/Warp Connect, and I forget the OS/2 version that actually   
   supported JFS out of the box, but that version too, various UNIX systems, and   
   of course, Linux and BSD systems.    
      
   I cannot think of a single thing where one actually does something "better"   
   than the other, in any way.   
      
    ER>> Right now, I have a mixed setup between Xubuntu on my laptop (Mostly   
    ER>> secondary computer), and Linux Mint on my primary desktop, however   
    ER>> I'm going to be switching Mint to Xubuntu or Fedora. Still not sure.   
      
    TL> My Linux desktop runs Mint.   
      
   Yeah, I dread the infernal upgrade process which I've heard has been   
   notoriously broken many times over. As in, they've historically never done it   
   right, not like Ubuntu LTS->LTS, or Fedora (since dnf), and of course Debian.   
      
   But, my reasons for using Linux Mint are pretty much ended when Cinnamon   
   started showing me ghosted taskbar items on the taskbar of my secondary   
   display, and the only resolution to solving it was... Logout and back in again.   
   It's very similar to the reason I left KDE, after having used KDE since pre   
   1.0 days, all the way through 5.x.   
      
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