Jim Snellen wrote:
Hello all,
I'm taking a break from Windows
What?! HOW DARE YOU! TRAITOR!!
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:)
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Any suggestions on a distro for my laptop and/or VMCE?
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I have 3 Linux distros installed in VMware virtual machines, and all run just fine for me (with various different definitions of "fine" and "for me"):
1. CentOS 6.4
2. KDE Neon 5.25
3. Kubuntu 21.10
CentOS 6.4 is *VERY* old and no longer supported and thus *NOT* recommended, but strangely, out of the three, I prefer it the most. It's user interface is very snappy. Can't speak about how well (or how poorly?) the rest of the operating system behaves, since, with me not being a Linux user, I don't really give Linux much of a workout. I only use Linux to build and test Hercules with. Nothing else.
KDE Neon 5.25 is okay, but it's user interface is kind of sluggish IMO. Maybe if it was running natively (instead of inside a VMware virtual machine) it might run better?
Kubuntu 21.10 seems quite nice IMO. The speed of the user interface, while nowhere near that of CentOS, seems ever so slightly faster than Neon's.
Haven't had any problems with any hardware with any of them, but then, as I said I'm running them inside a Windows VMware virtual machine too.
I also can't say much about VM/370 CE either, since I don't really use it.
And finally, I can't say ANYTHING AT ALL about Hercules 3.x(**), it being a completely stone cold fucking DEAD product, and am continually amazed there as people that still insist on using it.
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Does that help any? :)
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(*) You and everyone else knows me: I'm a Windows person, NOT a Linux person. So take everything I say about Linux with a grain of salt.
(**) There nothing (that I am aware of!) that Hercules 3.x can do that SDL Hyperion Hercules 4.4.1 cannot do better, and MUCH of what Hercules 3.x does that's done wrong/incorrectly that SDL Hyperion Hercules 4.4.1 does CORRECTLY. (Herc 3.x contains bugs galore which have all since been corrected in 4.x+)
There's really no reason IMO for anyone continuing to run 3.x. None. Nada. Zero. Zip. Zilch.
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