What distros have you been testing recently?
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:45 am
Just gave Kubuntu 18.04.3 a try and very disappointed with it. 5.12.5 KDE only and the Discover updater is still in the older version whichwas terrible. Still using the 4.15 kernel as well so done with that.
Retrying Zorin OS 15.1 and loving it as its a very feature rich distro, thats good with both desktops and laptops and doesnt force you open the lid of your laptop to engage an external monitor. Touch features if you need them and works very well with other devices such as smartphones. Memory usage though is still high at 1.3-1.6gb.
Also retrying Mint Mate 19 which I upgraded to 19.3 and it was quite a difference. Im using the Redmond theme so the desktop has a Winodws look to it still with the advanced Mate menu. It includes a system troubleshooter now, and a Kernel manager that makes changing or removing kernels a snap without issues. Along with the driver manager and other improvements to Mate its a realy nice distro so far that compares favorably though not exactly with KDE, Memory usage was around 500-533mb so Im good with that. I mainly use Htop for checking memory usage except with KDE as Ksysguard does a better/more accurate read on memory usage.
Presently using my wifes old Dell desktop with an Athlon II X3 435 cpu, 8gb of ram, radeon 4200 gpu and a 7200rpm 256gb hard drive.
Performance so far on all these distros with this 2009-2010 desktop has been excellent.
Retrying Zorin OS 15.1 and loving it as its a very feature rich distro, thats good with both desktops and laptops and doesnt force you open the lid of your laptop to engage an external monitor. Touch features if you need them and works very well with other devices such as smartphones. Memory usage though is still high at 1.3-1.6gb.
Also retrying Mint Mate 19 which I upgraded to 19.3 and it was quite a difference. Im using the Redmond theme so the desktop has a Winodws look to it still with the advanced Mate menu. It includes a system troubleshooter now, and a Kernel manager that makes changing or removing kernels a snap without issues. Along with the driver manager and other improvements to Mate its a realy nice distro so far that compares favorably though not exactly with KDE, Memory usage was around 500-533mb so Im good with that. I mainly use Htop for checking memory usage except with KDE as Ksysguard does a better/more accurate read on memory usage.
Presently using my wifes old Dell desktop with an Athlon II X3 435 cpu, 8gb of ram, radeon 4200 gpu and a 7200rpm 256gb hard drive.
Performance so far on all these distros with this 2009-2010 desktop has been excellent.