Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (9 Viewers)

[V]

I knew that would get your attention. I'm running Sabayon 5.0 and it's really good. Everything works including dual-monitors, extended desktop.

I'm now running "equo world --ask". Another 10 miutes or so I suppose.

 

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[V]

I never unerstood why fonts look like crap on linux. Really weird looking at the screen after years of Windows.

 

[Martin]

I knew that would get your attention. I'm running Sabayon 5.0 and it's really good. Everything works including dual-monitors, extended desktop.

Excellent

I'm now running "equo world --ask". Another 10 miutes or so I suppose.

Sure is. But if it makes you feel better that's a lot of io you get for that money. Here's the big picture:
1. Scan packages in world (/var/lib/portage/world).
2. Go through /usr/portage to find versions newer than the ones you have installed.
3. Resolve dependencies from those ebuilds, again traversing /usr/portage.
4. Produce a list of packages to emerge.

I heard it's much quicker if you mount /usr/portage in memory. Should take up about 600-700mb of your RAM

 

[Martin]

I never unerstood why fonts look like crap on linux. Really weird looking at the screen after years of Windows.

I think fonts look like crap in Windows. When I boot Windows my eyes hurt.

Either you have low standards for fonts or something is horribly misconfigured.

 

[V]

Excellent

Sure is. But if it makes you feel better that's a lot of io you get for that money. Here's the big picture:
1. Scan packages in world (/var/lib/portage/world).
2. Go through /usr/portage to find versions newer than the ones you have installed.
3. Resolve dependencies from those ebuilds, again traversing /usr/portage.
4. Produce a list of packages to emerge.

I heard it's much quicker if you mount /usr/portage in memory. Should take up about 600-700mb of your RAM

186 packages updated successfully and system rebooted.

I think fonts look like crap in Windows. When I boot Windows my eyes hurt.

Either you have low standards for fonts or something is horribly misconfigured.

Nah, I think it's just because I'm used to Windows clear type. It's just so different on Linux, I get a dizzy feeling looking at the screen.

Is this normal, check the screen?

 

[V]

Whoops, put the wrong screenshot.

Seems like there is difference between our fonts.

 

[Martin]

Yeah, your rendering isn't very good. I set my font to Deja Vu Sans. You also wanna play around with anti aliasing and hinting options, that can help. Even dpi.

 

[V]

Screw you, your rendering isn't good.

 

[V]

I installed MS's Segoe UI font. It looks more natural.

 

[Martin]

Them kids with their fonts..

 

[V]

I also might add, Ktorrent has gone a long way. Great app, don't need to wine uTorrent anymore.

All in all, I give Sabayon 4,8/5. Smooth, fast, runs like a charm out the boox.

 

[Martin]

Yeah, ktorrent is really solid these days.

 

[JCK]

It has been solid since KDE 4, the best facelift I have ever witnessed on Linux.

 

[Martin]

*installing sabayon*

If it doesn't work out I have the vanilla gentoo in reserve.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I liked Sabayon too when I first installed it a long time ago. Too bad my system resources were low to fully enjoy it. good luck, M.

 

[Martin]

mhm, this old HP laptop is about to trip and fall whenever I throw a little io at it. I wonder if it's a heavy desktop they have going or the hardware not living up to the demands of today. When this is all I had it used to run perfectly, now all of a sudden it's lagging.

 

[Martin]

Btw vlatko if you run:
$ equo install --pretend undvd
..you'll get a half baked dvd ripping/video transcoding app by yours truly :eyebrows:

 

[Martin]

Bleh, this is no good. The kde4 desktop frickin lags on my dualcore with 3gb of memory. It's terrible on this old laptop, insane amounts of pointless io on an old, slow harddrive. kio_thumbnail just refuses to die.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Stick with Gen2, Martin!

 

[JCK]

Martin, what is vanilla gentoo?