Remember Ubuntu? Of course you do. Remember the distro you tried after Ubuntu? Of course you do.
Remember how did it feel not to have a tiny little app that lets you install drivers with a click? Of course....this is getting repetitive <_<
Here's my point.There's nothing quite like Ubuntu( well maybe a Ubuntu based distro lol).Ubuntu is too easy for a noob to move on.
After Ubuntu,I tried Fedora.I was like: Ok where the hell is that thinngy that lets me install drivers...huh no fedora-restricted-extras ??They don't have any proprietary software in their repos? Nooo
Yep,total fail.
Every time I try a new distro I consider myself a windows fanboy who just found out about "Linux"
Every time I was disappointed by the amount of friendliness I encountered --> 0
But..with Sabayon it was different:
There was no need for "thinggy" to install NVIDIA proprietary drivers.They were already installed.
No need for codecs --> already there. Just to be sure I installed "vlc" using Sulfur ( awesome tool btw with both a simple and a advanced interface )
The overall desktop experience was great.The flash player plug in was already installed by default,they even added an update notifier for extreme noob cases when one can't the big [ Sync ] button in the Sulfur interface.
One final thing.Updates are released really often.Right now there should be like 700 packages that need updating.Just grab the daily iso from the "iso" folder and you're going to have a Sbayon system with all updates already installed right after you reboot your pc.
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Crunchbang Linux ,one of my favorite lightweight distros,which is now based on Debian announced that the Ubuntu based-on version reached the end of its life.
The Statler design is an important step towards a unique linux philosophy.Minimalist and dark is better.They always say the site must reflect the distribution.Well the new site does just that.
Just take a look at the site while reading the announcement here.
If you didn't know,the CrunchBang 10 "Statler" - Alpha 2 release is based on Debian Squeeze,which means it's as rollin' as much as Linux Mint Debian edition is.Plus this one has a x64 version ready with 2 desktop environments you can choose from: openbox and xfce4.Give it a try.You won't regret it.
No matter how noob you consider yourself there's always room for some geekness. I kinda like that word.It's the first thing I presumed I will be when installing Ubuntu. Ah.. Ubuntu..was just a start. Soon I started testing all kind of things..from Kolibri to ReactOS:D
But only three operating systems caught my attention.I will only provide the resources you will need to do the digging (a.k.a I will show you the road but I cannot walk it for you)
These are in no way read for ready for daily desktop use(maybe the first one but it cannot be compared to the friendliness of ubuntu)
You have been warned.The greatest way to try these is a virtual machine.
Whoever said Windows can do something and Linux can't was on drugs.By the way I'm not talking about something like Uh..Shinny windows 7 has start menu button,me don't likey the Kickoff menu from Kubuntu,that's why I think Windows is better
Believe me I wouldn't have added this to my post if I wouldn't have heard something similar like a million time when trying to converge my friends to Linux.
Today I'll be reviewing a very nice and simple gtk+ written app named Furiusisomount(see the screen shot above) developed by Dean Harris.The current version is 0.11.3.0
If you like minimal desktops/want to switch to Archlinux but are too afraid of a post-installation CLI/tried something like Crunchbang before you should definitely try this.