There should be a warning label on Linux

[Karlos]

I think I'll keep to Enlightenment as far as desktops go for linux.

Elive 2.0 is ok, though not nearly as good as I was hoping for. Using Lenny as a base is a bit pants imho. Especially if you want to do anything with IM's. `

I may well try out the E17 variant of PClinuxOS next.

I tried it, was not keen. But that's the beauty of linux, I guess; choice!

I might give AmiWM a try actually. It has screen dragging to reveal the various desktop workspaces :lol:

[the_leander]

I tried it, was not keen. But that's the beauty of linux, I guess; choice!

What, E17, Elive, PCLinuxOS?

I might give AmiWM a try actually. It has screen dragging to reveal the various desktop workspaces :lol:

:lol:

[Karlos]

^ No, just enlightenment.

[AmigaEd]

There should be a warning label on Linux

... and what would you propose for Windoze? ... perhaps, a warning billboard?

[Arkhan]

... and what would you propose for Windoze? ... perhaps, a warning billboard?

it would say

WARNING: BRAIN REQUIRED TO OPERATE.

[haywirepc]

Kde used to be okay, but in my view it was always alot more resource hungry than I think a window manager should be... I just checked out the new 4.0 a bit ago...now its a complete and total piece of shit.
 
Gnome is okay but a resource hog... I use xfce. Its light, super fast and snappy and does anything kde or gnome do, just faster and with less resources.

[klx300r]

I like Lenny GNOME but I love AmigaOS:cool:

[TomJ]

I recently picked up  a powermac 400mhz for $10 and it took some time to find the right download but lucid lynx is running good on it. Vista(I propose Total Deletion) was crapping out on me so I put it on my laptop and I'm a lot happier with it so far. but xamiga is my goal on the powermac I just have to learn more   about linux or get better suggestions than xamiga.

[Piru]

powermac 400mhz

xamiga is my goal on the powermac I just have to learn more   about linux or get better suggestions than xamiga.

400MHz PowerPC is way too slow for usable amiga emulation (there is no powerpc UAE JIT).

[TomJ]

400MHz PowerPC is way too slow for usable amiga emulation (there is no powerpc UAE JIT).

Being that I am rather new to this. what makes it to slow. everthing else is faster? no graphics chipset? the processor is faster than classic amigas right. I wouldn't know about board speeds though.

[jj]

Well i think the standard ubuntu 10.04 LTS is pretty good.  Not tried any otyher version of ubuntu to be honest just stuck with stock distros and found its got better and better over time.
 
Currently got 10.04 and Win7 on mt laptop.  Must say Win7 is easily fastest win OS I used on anyhting.  Even faster than XP.

[Piru]

what makes it to slow?

Lack of JIT for PowerPC UAE. Also the amiga chipset emulation is very demanding, and slow systems will struggle with that.

everthing else is faster? no graphics chipset?

Pardon?

the processor is faster than classic amigas right.

It is, but emulating an amiga is a heavy task, and it's all CPU bound. Without JIT to boost the processor emulation performance 400MHz PowerMac will be just unbearably slow.

[Einstein]

and starting everything with a K really pisses me off.

I suppose I could modify the kernel in my sig later...nah I'm too lazy.

[DavidF215]

My Win7 computer boots faster. I gave up on Linux. It reminded me too much of the days of Win95 and Win98--it's a GUI that runs atop DOS. The only Unix I would have is HP UX, but that's pricey.

[LoadWB]

My Win7 computer boots faster. I gave up on Linux. It reminded me too much of the days of Win95 and Win98--it's a GUI that runs atop DOS. The only Unix I would have is HP UX, but that's pricey.

Solaris kinda-fanboi reporting in.  I dabbled in Linux in my earlier days.  Did some VAX/VMS.  Got thrown to Solaris around 2.4 and have not looked back since.  I rather enjoy it, though its future is a little hazy under Oracle.  Back when Solaris 8 was still the big thing, and Solaris 9 dropped x86 support (no, wait, we were only joking,) Sun released Gnome and KDE packages.  I installed both and far preferred Gnome over KDE.  Anything over the CDE built in, even with its nostalgia value.

I had been exclusively command line in Solaris 10, though I did a recent VirtualBox installation of 10 with the Gnome desktop.  Still seems pretty sharp to me.

[ElPolloDiabl]

I was on Vista for awhile but it kept taking up chunks of memory and eventually requiring a reboot. It was an OEM version so maybe it wasn't as good as the retail. The feedback on Windows 7 has got me interested, but I'm not forking out 200 bucks for it.
I dumped Kubuntu, it was too buggy and I will go back to Ubuntu, that is very stable.