Hi guys i kind off have this sort of trouble the thing is that i constantly jump from one distro to another sometimes even i changed my os every 2 days has that ever happened to one of you is there any tips to stop myself i know that some of you may find it stupid but i truly think that too much of freedom is downside to linux
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Well, if you're having a good time installing a new OS every two days, why stop now?
OTOH, if you ever get to a point where you need to use the computer to do serious work over a period of days, weeks, months, or years, you might find configuring your system and your tools to support your work is too much time and energy on non-productive activities, and then you might select an OS to stay with indefinitely. I went to the extreme other side -- I don't even want to risk a distro upgrade every six months or a year, so I went with a rolling release that never becomes obsolete. I'm typing this on a system that I installed in mid-2011, in firefox (iceweasel) ver. 32.0.3, running a 3.17 kernel. It's all a matter of taste, and your needs for a production platform.Last edited by dibl; Oct 05, 2014, 03:39 PM.
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only every 2 days?
(Most of my installs are in vmware, but I'm try quite a few distro's)Last edited by jpenguin; Oct 05, 2014, 03:55 PM.
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Allow me to recommend that you stay with Kubuntu 14.04 as your primary OS, install VirtualBox on it, and then play with all the other distros as a guest OS inside of VirtualBox."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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I think, at first, a lot of people install distros frequently, like this, mainly because they can, and it's free, and possibly fun.
OTOH, sounds like it could be a hobby, so why not make it such, officially.
Partition your disk so you have one main OS--a root, home, and swap partition (say 25 GB, 100 GB, 5 GB, respectively--or whatever). Leave room for partition(s) for other OSs. Use your main partition for serious work; use the others for your experiments. And enjoy it without further analysis or ado.
Get and keep this on hand:
Boot-Repair
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
Example of partitioning:
Use GParted Live CD/USB to do this, on one disk, say.
sad1 root / 25 GB -- for your main OS
sda2 /home 100 GB -- for your main OS
sda3 swap
sda4 Extended (I'm assuming a MBR partition structure)
Then Logical partitions within the Extended--for your test OSs
sda5 another OS root
sda6 another OS home (if necessary)
etc. (for other test OSs, you may not want or need a separate /home partition ... and so on)
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...Last edited by Qqmike; Oct 05, 2014, 05:13 PM.An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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I've stayed with Kubuntu because it just works for me, and it has been incredibly stable. Sometimes; rarely; I might have an issue with an application. But I don't expect a 100% error-free perfect system. It's written by humans after all. Kubuntu has been an absolute pleasure to use. I have no inclination to switch.Windows no longer obstructs my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes
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Originally posted by whatthefunk View PostI never really understood distro jumping. You cant really get to know a distro until youve used it for a while. Ive been on Kubuntu for nearly three years now and Im still finding stuff that I didnt know about before.
I guess it could be interesting to check out the differences of other distros, but would be wiser to do that with virtualbox I would think.
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Originally posted by whatthefunk View PostI never really understood distro jumping. You cant really get to know a distro until youve used it for a while. Ive been on Kubuntu for nearly three years now and Im still finding stuff that I didnt know about before.
With all that said, however, if someone derives pleasure out of distro-hopping, more power to them!
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Pan-Galactic QuordlepleenSo Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
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Originally posted by sido-kubuntu View PostHi guys i kind off have this sort of trouble the thing is that i constantly jump from one distro to another sometimes even i changed my os every 2 days has that ever happened to one of you is there any tips to stop myself i know that some of you may find it stupid but i truly think that too much of freedom is downside to linux
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im also unstable. love trying new distros. finding out how things were dealt with differently, sometimes better sometimes worse.
while doing so Kubuntu was my first wow (after POS Mint), i really didnt like Kde before Kubuntu but out of curiosity i gave it a go as i found Unity a pointless mess of clicking about..
anyway, i was put off Kubuntu/Ubuntu with the frequent updates and new kernel every few days, frequently updates would break things. It comes down to user skill i guess and i should have turned that off.
But curiosity got the better of me and i kept searching for a rock solid KDE distro.
so Suse was next, it's been around 10 years since i hada suse server at home, i think it was Suse 9 or 10.
Anyhow, Suse feels rock solid and there's a definate fine polished feel to it. it's very nice!
one curious thing about Suse; i posted a fairly simple question on Suse forums, and the quality of response by one of the admins was pretty crap.
I realised how good the kubuntu forums are!!!!
anyway, later on i was working with a fairly low specced machine and Suse was definately not a candidate , so i tried Debian with kde.
talk about rock solid distro! love it! with xfce or kde it is very awsome! have not used this distro for many years and it is still THE ROCK. (debian sucks for usb or removable disk installs because it lacks drivers/firmware for nework itnerfaces)
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this weekend i bought a Macbook Air 13 inch planning to install, sorry to say, Debian on it. being a total ignoramus of Mac OS i started reading about it, and its base on BSD not linux, but the interface is familiar to Linux way of handling things, has a terminal with some linux commands, not many, but has ssh and telnet which is a real bonus! it boots perfectly off a kubuntu on USB and Debian on a removable SSD.
so there's Kubuntu on my server, Suse on my desktop, debian on a Dell laptop and Mac OS on Macbook. it's interesting how all those things are different yet have so many similarities..K 14.4 64 AMD 955be3200MHz 8GB 1866Mhz 6TB Plex/samba.etc.+ Macbook Air 13".
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Mac OS is the greatest hippy con in the world...
i know its not linux, but bear with me for a second,
think of it like this,
build a distro based on, ahh, whatever u like.
tune it to only one PC build.
and sell that PC..over and over again
its brilliant if u ask meK 14.4 64 AMD 955be3200MHz 8GB 1866Mhz 6TB Plex/samba.etc.+ Macbook Air 13".
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Originally posted by millusions View Post... Suse feels rock solid and there's a definate fine polished feel to it. it's very nice!..
As far as forums go, I too, find this forum to be the best I've ever used in sixteen years of using Linux."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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