Not again, Microsoft!
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@roadscribe Pick your poison: https://distrowatch.com/
10 different people will say 10 different distros are best, you gotta decide this for yourself.But the best distro is Slackware, so forget what I said above and install it.
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Mint is quite user friendly and debian/ubuntu based (so it has a lot of packages) and it have less aggressive update policies (harder to break things, GUI and kernel especially).
KDE is probably the best DE for new linux users (even if it's heavier), or gnome... or xfce.... it's just matter of preference...or poison choose, as said before. -
@hadden89 said in Not again, Microsoft!:
KDE is probably the best DE for new linux users
Well, the latest Mint 19 doesn't have KDE.
Not sure if Cinnamon or XFCE is better for "newbies" (like me). -
@tbgbe Sad. And strange. A lot of people like KDE. It's pretty common.
XFCE is nice and easy on resources (originally forked from old gnome).
I always liked its clean layout.
Nothing I can say about cinnamon (forked from gnome shell 3) or mate - also forked from old gnome - as I've never tried them. But I think they're pretty similar -
@luetage said in Not again, Microsoft!:
@roadscribe Pick your poison: https://distrowatch.com/
10 different people will say 10 different distros are best, you gotta decide this for yourself.But the best distro is Slackware, so forget what I said above and install it.
@@luetage is absolutely correct. Listen to him, and then install MX Linux!
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@paul1149 said in Not again, Microsoft!:
@luetage said in Not again, Microsoft!:
@roadscribe Pick your poison: https://distrowatch.com/
10 different people will say 10 different distros are best, you gotta decide this for yourself.But the best distro is Slackware, so forget what I said above and install it.
@@luetage is absolutely correct. Listen to him, and then install MX Linux!
Ssoooo...
Best distro for a netbook from 2010 anyone?
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@mossman said in Not again, Microsoft!:
Best distro for a netbook from 2010 anyone?
Does that mean it has to be 32bit?
Maybe look at Mint using MATE desktop? -
I have used Mint and found it to be very user friendly. Just saying.
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@mossman said in Not again, Microsoft!:
Ssoooo...
Best distro for a netbook from 2010 anyone?
With a single core atom cpu? MX works pretty well. Anti-X is faster, but the LXDE desktop environment is very spartan to my tastes. I had the best video results using Puppy, but it has some quirks I don't like.
I just outfitted an old HP mini 1100, and believe it or not put Win10 on it, with pretty good results.
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@paul1149
Not being a fan of the latest gnome desktop iteration I would recommend either Xubuntu or mx17.
Both are debian based and use xfce with a feature adequate window manager.
mx17 has some nice tools.
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Thanks for the responses re. netbooks. Not sure when I'll actually get round to doing it, but a look online nudged me towards Lubuntu.
I'll probably only be using it for VLC and Vivaldi
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@mossman said in Not again, Microsoft!:
Thanks for the responses re. netbooks. Not sure when I'll actually get round to doing it, but a look online nudged me towards Lubuntu.
I'll probably only be using it for VLC and Vivaldi
You don't need more than this. currently are existing very good online tools for everything (see my colection)
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Only Vivaldi itself uses the default search from Microsoft(bing) and does not even allow you to delete it! :))) The main thing is to put more dust in people's eyes!))
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@azchatlanin Of course you can delete it, but you have to assign a new default search first. You cannot delete a default search is your issue.
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@luetage Wow!!! Good! Then can you tell me how to install the translator? If it exist of course!
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@azchatlanin You can also use this bookmarklet:
javascript:var t=((window.getSelection&&window.getSelection())||(document.getSelection&&document.getSelection())||(document.selection &&document.selection.createRange&&document.selection.createRange().text));var e=(document.charset||document.characterSet);if(t!=''){location.href='http://translate.google.com/translate_t?text='+t+'&hl=en&tbb=1&ie='+e;}else{location.href='http://translate.google.com/translate?u='+escape(location.href)+'&hl=en&tbb=1&ie='+e;};
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@legobuilder26 Please! Ho to use it?
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@azchatlanin Click the add bookmark button:
Then set the name to translate, or whatever you want
Copy and paste the text I gave into address
Set the folder to bookmarks barWhenever you click the bookmark, it will translate the page you are viewing
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Microsoft has just blocked EdgeDeflector, a workaround for forcing urls from search, widgets, settings, etc, to not open in Edge. The fact that it doesn't respect the default browser is stupid in and of itself, but blocking EdgeDeflector is a whole new level. [EdgeDeflector's workaround has recently been added directly into Firefox and Brave recently, which now also don't work]
About EdgeDeflector
About EdgeDeflector being blocked
One of the only working alternatives [it uses a different method that Microsoft hopefully won't be able to block]C'mon Microsoft