07-31-2016, 02:27 AM
Well, I dislike GNOME (although haven't tried it in years - last was Ubuntu - not a huge fan of Debian but maybe I just got sick of it over years since I loved Xandros (Corel Linux) at one time). I thought about Xfce this time, but I'm doing a Linux course to brush up and didn't want to add learning a new GUI. After the course would be a good time to try.
OpenSuse sees the laptop as an AMD dual Core with 3.3 GiB of RAM. My newest and least powerful computer.
It boggles my mind that 20+ years ago, dual cores went obsolete and quad core+ became standard for reasonable prices. Now it's hard to find quad core without spending a fortune - especially if you want RAM that can actually run Windows properly. The computers I sell now, were obsolete 10 years ago. The tech industry is completely failing at innovation and I blame capitalism.
I have an old desktop from somewhere around 2003 that was mid-low end that blows all my newer hardware out of the water. In fact, even the top end laptops I've sold this year pale in comparison to what I sold 10+ years ago.
Anyhow, Linux..... I simply hope OpenSuse/KDE will make this laptop, which is useless with Windows, usable. I think I can do pretty much everything I want through Suse. I have a laptop set aside to run QuickBooks, Expression Web, Steam; another to do my media; and a NAS to hold all the data. Essentially Linux is an attempt to make a worthless new laptop, of some worth.
OpenSuse sees the laptop as an AMD dual Core with 3.3 GiB of RAM. My newest and least powerful computer.
It boggles my mind that 20+ years ago, dual cores went obsolete and quad core+ became standard for reasonable prices. Now it's hard to find quad core without spending a fortune - especially if you want RAM that can actually run Windows properly. The computers I sell now, were obsolete 10 years ago. The tech industry is completely failing at innovation and I blame capitalism.
I have an old desktop from somewhere around 2003 that was mid-low end that blows all my newer hardware out of the water. In fact, even the top end laptops I've sold this year pale in comparison to what I sold 10+ years ago.
Anyhow, Linux..... I simply hope OpenSuse/KDE will make this laptop, which is useless with Windows, usable. I think I can do pretty much everything I want through Suse. I have a laptop set aside to run QuickBooks, Expression Web, Steam; another to do my media; and a NAS to hold all the data. Essentially Linux is an attempt to make a worthless new laptop, of some worth.
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