Brickwizard
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if it were mine it would have got a flying lesson, the owner is window blinkered no way of changing them
I am a Windows refugee
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Brickwizard
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Brian is that cases,
They are both Ubuntu, so none of them will be good. Use https://distrowatch.com/ to search distros.
You can run nearly any software in WINE, sometimes with additional steps. Just use AppDB to check, what these steps are. Zbrush is "platinum" in that database, meaning it runs nearly perfectly.
What about AI, you'll probably need it in Linux. I use LLMs very often to automate solving Linux problems. They are very bad in generating instructions for GUI programs, but very good in generating commands, scrips, config files, etc ... I'd like to have an LLM built in.
Hearing the new issues with 24H2, like some 8GB undeletable data lingering in the system, /sfc scan repeatedly giving false positives, crashing after prematurely installing update that was released (why is it released to folks of whose computers will crash?), Recall not deletable outside the EU (but the access to kernel like the Clownstrike fiasco was global, blaming EU, how do you explain it, Microsoft?)... we aren't refugees. We are escapees.
Nah, I don't go along with that. I've been using various 'buntu-based Puppies for years, and never had any problems with 'em. Just because YOU clearly don't like Ubuntu, doesn't mean everybody else has issues with it.
Mind you, 'buntu-based Puppies are NOT Ubuntu. We might use many of the base binaries and dependencies.....but that's about as far as it goes. The way 'our Pup' functions is very, VERY different.
That's the great thing about the Linux eco-system. There's plenty of choice for all; frankly, it'd be amazing if any Linux user couldn't find something they could live with.
Haters are, of course, free to hate.....
(shrug...)
Mike.
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I don't like it now, because I have issues with it. I liked 14.04.
I'm not a hater, I think programs are tools, you can't hate them, you can just find them more or less useful. A useful program is the one that solves a problem and saves your time.
I just think Ubuntu-based are not very good for a beginner cuz they have very few packages and they are old and you have to build everything yourself. And they now use Wayland with all it's bugs and missing features. And they have problems due to poor packaging, like not working "open location" menu in GIMP, like not working KMail, like removable media not being mounted when you click first time on them in Dolphin.
It depends on definition. What's the difference between being $distroname and being based on $distroname? I think repos are what makes distros different.
What the heck are you talking about?
Brickwizard
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Come on mike, you know.. AI
Artificial, [re-production, copy, FAKE]
Intelligence
the current offerings are just glorified screen scrapers
"Artificial, [re-production..." Don't remind me - that's how I got this puppy!
@damix9 :-
Heh. SNAP. I started my Linux journey with "Trusty Tahr".....my first ever taste of Linux. Initially I loved it, yet I soon grew disillusioned with it - the reason for my 'permanent' move to Puppy - due to Shuttleworth's predilection for regularly dropping kernel support for older hardware.......a practice that ran counter to established Linux convention, since he had this odd idea that Ubuntu was the ONLY "serious" direct competition to Windows!
Strange man.....
'Puppy' suits me down to the ground. I'm a tinkerer at heart.....and Puppy literally IS a "tinkerer's paradise". It's not a paradigm that suits everybody, though; many just want to install an OS, fire it up and simply use it.....and for EVERYTHING to just "work", with no need to tinker.
Several mainstream distros have gone out of their way to accommodate the many that share this view; there's some highly-polished, extremely user-friendly Linux OSs out there now. Which is, of course, to everyone's benefit...and ZorinOS is one of these. I've had a regularly upgraded install of ZorinOS on an external HDD for over 8 years by now; it's one of the very few mainstream distros I have any time for.
(Mind you, I also have an install of ChromeOS-Reflex on an external SSD, plus an install of HaikuOS on a 64 GB USB 3.2 flashdrive.....so it's easy to see I have odd tastes!)
Mike.
Heh. SNAP. I started my Linux journey with "Trusty Tahr".....my first ever taste of Linux. Initially I loved it, yet I soon grew disillusioned with it - the reason for my 'permanent' move to Puppy - due to Shuttleworth's predilection for regularly dropping kernel support for older hardware.......a practice that ran counter to established Linux convention, since he had this odd idea that Ubuntu was the ONLY "serious" direct competition to Windows!
Strange man.....
'Puppy' suits me down to the ground. I'm a tinkerer at heart.....and Puppy literally IS a "tinkerer's paradise". It's not a paradigm that suits everybody, though; many just want to install an OS, fire it up and simply use it.....and for EVERYTHING to just "work", with no need to tinker.
Several mainstream distros have gone out of their way to accommodate the many that share this view; there's some highly-polished, extremely user-friendly Linux OSs out there now. Which is, of course, to everyone's benefit...and ZorinOS is one of these. I've had a regularly upgraded install of ZorinOS on an external HDD for over 8 years by now; it's one of the very few mainstream distros I have any time for.
(Mind you, I also have an install of ChromeOS-Reflex on an external SSD, plus an install of HaikuOS on a 64 GB USB 3.2 flashdrive.....so it's easy to see I have odd tastes!)
Mike.
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I mean I often use it to generate commands, systemd units, etc.
Of course It's fake. And sometimes it's really funny how irrelevant it's answers are. But it saves my time, cuz more often it's answers are working and helpful. When I started using them, I was impressed, how realistic it is.
I asked a neural network, how to disable logs in MythTV, and that's what I got
Code:
[Unit]Description=MythTV Backend
Documentation=https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythbackend
After=mysql.service network.target
[Service]
User=mythtv
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/mythtv/additional.args
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mythbackend --quiet --syslog local7 $ADDITIONAL_ARGS --loglevel crit
StartLimitBurst=10
StartLimitInterval=10m
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=1
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.targetDoes Puppy have another kernel, built with more old drivers enabled?
I think I'm of the second type of people. I like doing things myself, but I like to automate and optimize everything. I can spend a lot of time setting up some software/hardware/etc once in order not to spend time regularly.
@damix9 :-
Bearing in mind for a moment that Puppy doesn't HAVE a 'dev-team' - most Puppies are the work of single individuals, so they tend to be a 'jack-of-all-trades' anyway - we have several community members that regularly compile and build kernels (mostly of the 'huge' variety, with virtually everything built-in, including the kitchen sink!)
Another of our senior members has for years been maintaining a special Puppy firmware repo; naturally enough, this works in tandem with the kernel hardware modules. Doesn't matter how old or obscure your hardware may be, I can almost guarantee gyro will have a firmware blob somewhere in his collection that'll ensure it runs for you. (Firmware - unlike drivers, which are kernel-specific - is of course kernel-agnostic).
Our community archivist has been archiving Puppy software for many years, and has an 'unlimited' a/c at archive.org (these are the same guys that help to maintain the Wayback Machine). I believe Ally's Puppy kernel repo contained somewhere over 450 kernels at the last count...going all the way back to late 2-series. He also regularly takes 'snapshots' of many of the personal cloud-hosting ac/s where several of us maintain our own community software repos.
Anyhoo, to answer your question, aye; luckily, we do indeed have plenty of alternatives!
Mike.
Bearing in mind for a moment that Puppy doesn't HAVE a 'dev-team' - most Puppies are the work of single individuals, so they tend to be a 'jack-of-all-trades' anyway - we have several community members that regularly compile and build kernels (mostly of the 'huge' variety, with virtually everything built-in, including the kitchen sink!)
Another of our senior members has for years been maintaining a special Puppy firmware repo; naturally enough, this works in tandem with the kernel hardware modules. Doesn't matter how old or obscure your hardware may be, I can almost guarantee gyro will have a firmware blob somewhere in his collection that'll ensure it runs for you. (Firmware - unlike drivers, which are kernel-specific - is of course kernel-agnostic).
Our community archivist has been archiving Puppy software for many years, and has an 'unlimited' a/c at archive.org (these are the same guys that help to maintain the Wayback Machine). I believe Ally's Puppy kernel repo contained somewhere over 450 kernels at the last count...going all the way back to late 2-series. He also regularly takes 'snapshots' of many of the personal cloud-hosting ac/s where several of us maintain our own community software repos.
Anyhoo, to answer your question, aye; luckily, we do indeed have plenty of alternatives!
Mike.
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