LINUX Distro Installsof this web-page author
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My preferred distro, circa 2021. |
This page links to documentation on more than 7 Linux
'distro' installs - from 2009 through 2021 (and beyond?).
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INTRODUCTION : After several years of experimenting with several different Linux 'distros' (from about 2006 to 2008), in 2009 I finally found a Linux distro (Ubuntu 9.10, 2009 October, 'Karmic Koala') that would allow me to migrate my 'main' home computer usage from a Microsoft operating system to a Linux operating system. Around 2009-2010, I put Ubuntu 9.10 on several desktop computers. I also put Ubuntu (9.04 and 9.10) on several Acer 'netbook' computers. I have recorded the 'specifications' of these netbook and desktop computers on a separate computer specifications page. After Ubuntu abandoned the Gnome2 'desktop' environment and Nautilus file-manager and started developing their 'Unity' user interface, I decided to try the Linux Mint distro which, even though it was based on Ubuntu releases, was still using Gnome2-Nautilus for a release or two. This was around the 2011 time frame. I really liked the Gnome2-Nautilus desktop environment. It made my 'workflow' --- in web page development and shell-and-Tcl/Tk script development--- flow smoothly. The Gnome2-Nautilus environment was 'forked' (by a group of Argentine Gnome2 aficionados) to the MATE desktop environment with the Caja file-manager. Linux Mint, although they started developing their own 'Cinnamon' desktop interface, provided a LinuxMint-MATE release with every LinuxMint-Cinnamon release in the 2011 to 2018 timeframe. However, I did not like the LinuxMint-MATE releases, because elements of the Cinnamon interface were merged into the MATE environment, resulting in a slower and clumsier interface than the old Gnome2 interface. An Ubuntu-MATE 'distro' was developed around 2014, and around 2015 it became one of the 'blessed' releases ('flavours') of Ubuntu. I had a very pain-free installation of Ubuntu-MATE in 2018. I think Ubuntu-MATE will be my favorite distro in the future. Just in case I ever have to use LinuxMint-MATE on a desktop or netbook computer, I have documented a way of restoring the 'Top Panel' to the MATE desktop that has been 'gutted' by the LinuxMint folks. Basis of the Linux Install Menu below: I provided fairly detailed descriptions of the problems I encountered (and the work-arounds) in the several kinds of 'distros' that I installed. I started out putting the install descriptions on two web pages --- for 'Ubuntu Installs' and, then, for 'LinuxMint installs'. But those web pages, after a few installs each, became quite unwieldy due to the lengthy descriptions. So some of those pages were 'forked' into other pages. On some occasions, when I have wanted or needed to refer back to those old installs, I found that it was rather difficult to find a particular install among the long descriptions that were sometimes strung out on a single page --- and sometimes on their own page. I was finding that it would be nice to have a chronological overview of my various Linux installs. I decided to make this 'menu of Linux installs' so that I can quickly go to descriptions of any one of my past Linux installs. Thusly ... the following menu. |
MENU of Links to Linux Install Descriptions(most recent installs first)
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Page was created 2018 Aug 26.
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