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Crikey, that's a huge list of changes since 14.04: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/14.04.1
unfortunately the one i'm interested in, Ubuntu Mate, may not get a release based on this? anyone know? i'll have to do it myself from one of the official flavours i guess.. http://ubuntu-mate.org
also anyone know when these changes get rolled into Mint 17?
I've got nothing against Unity or Gnome. XFCE and MATE are just lighter desktop environments that will probably work better on 960MB of RAM.
Ubuntu MATE is Ubuntu with the MATE desktop environment. MATE is a continuation of Gnome 2.
Gotcha. You will eventually run into problems running Gnome 2 on modern distros, so it might not be a bad idea to start evaluating alternatives. If you are a fan of Gnome 2, I would recommend checking out MATE.. There's even a custom rolled community version of Ubuntu with the MATE desktop available at http://ubuntu-mate.org and it's available now on the 15.10 base.
Mate's goal is to be a traditional desktop experience. The Ubuntu Mate distro, through mate tweak, provides different layouts from the default of traditional mate to contemporary and unity(Mutiny). http://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-artful-beta2/ For theming you could try Paper for icons and Adapta for GTK.
For a thrift store computer i recommend Mint with Cinnamon or Ubuntu Mate (16.04 LTS version). Cinnamon needs a bit more resources.
The computer should have a 64bit dual core processor and at least 3GB of RAM. (Everything else is not enjoyable). (40 - 70$/€)
For audio recording and simple cutting highly recommend the program ocenaudio. (For more complex stuff Audacity, but it is not easy to use.)
For podcasting i recommend an usb mic that has an integrated sound card. Eg a Blue Yeti but that might be a bit to expensive (sometimes on sale for just 60$ so setup a amazon alarm or similar). Or something like Samson Meteor or Blue Snowball (50 - 70€$). Review for the yeti by a ~Linux podcast.
There was an unofficial ArchLinuxPPC fork a couple years back, but it's pretty much dried up now. Even if you could find an iso you wouldn't have any maintained packages.
I'd highly recommend looking at the Ubuntu MATE project. They're adding official PPC support (download here,) by 15.04/15.10 thanks to their lively and very active community. ;) I've tried it on my PowerBook G4 and it runs really well.
PIXEL is only built for either the Raspberry Pi (ARM) or standard PC (x86) architectures. It will not run on a Power Mac (PowerPC).
I recommend Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS or Lubuntu 16.04 LTS. Burn either image to a CD and boot by holding C (IIRC) as the Mac powers on. Make sure you download the images labeled PowerPC.
Dunno if it's what the OP did, but you may want to keep an eye on the Mate flavor that's pending.
http://ubuntu-mate.org/gallery/Screenshots/
I don't know how usable it is currently*, I haven't paid enough attention to it, but from what I understand current versions of Mate are everything that was good about the Gnome 2.x interface, and more...
Edit: I mean I don't know how usable the Mate Ubuntu flavor is - Mate, as I understand it, is generally quite stable and great.
Regarding creating the live USB with the iso I've had good experiences with etcher.io
Also consider Ubuntu Mate. I think it is the best ubuntu flavor at the moment and has a great community.
Wow, I've been using Linux just one year. ;)
>I was never a Ubuntu fan. Even though I used many Linux distro's that were base on Ubuntu.
Same here. I'm not a big fan of stock Ubuntu because of the annoying things Canonical does. I picked Fedora as my first distro because I didn't want that Amazon button and the web-searching stuff. But I am a big fan of Ubuntu Mate for the beautiful implementation of Mate and great community. If I recommend Ubuntu to someone, I'm going to suggest the Mate flavor.
The Ubuntu base system is fine. It's stable, includes relatively recent software, and does not have an annoying release cycle for regular users. The annoying Canonical stuff is all baked into Unity (and now Unity-themed Gnome). This is why Ubuntu flavors and Ubuntu-based distros like Mint are so popular.
>MX is my main primary OS at this time. My previously ones were Voyager, Netrunner and Lite. Next year I'll be using Solus.
You know, this reminds me that I there are a bunch of distros aimed at regular desktop users other than ~~Ubuntu~~ Ubuntu Mate. I really should check them out more. :)
>It looks like your not a big fan of Ubuntu either; Arch user.
Not an Arch user yet, though I have it running on a VM at this very moment. But I will likely end up running it on my regular hardware if I don't get sucked into the Void. I'm looking for something non-Debian, fairly cutting edge, probably rolling-release, and entirely user-configurable for my next Linux experience. Ubuntu is basically the opposite of that. ;u;
You can use a lot of different Desktop Environments on Ubuntu.
DE's the most similar to Windows 95-XP-7 are:
- Mate (you can select "Redmond" configuration in the Mate Tweak Tool. I run it on several machines for Windows users and they've never complained)
- LXDE
- XFCE
The easiest way to get them is to install Ubuntu flavors. Respectively,
10.10 had support until April 2012. Please install a newer version of Ubuntu. As it is a netbook i recommend Ubuntu Mate which needs less ressources than Ubuntu with Unity. It also has a netbook preset, which you can enable via Mate Tweak Tool after you installed it.
> It's worth noting for those fans of Ubuntu Mate, there is no way to upgrade from 15.04 to 15.10, you'll need to do a fresh install.
Incorrect. See: http://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-wily-final-release/
> "Fixed update-manager and do-release-upgrade to upgrade from Ubuntu MATE 15.04 to Ubuntu MATE 15.10."
Lets just say it is not known to be a beginner distro.
Compared to Ubuntu is has less packages (exhibit one: light-locker). It appears (from the outside) that their new found focus is being a workstation for developers and admins.
More software targets Ubuntu (e.g. Steam) and there are much more howtos and tutorials for beginner.
I started with Ubuntu a few years back. If a new user asked me what to choose my answer would be Ubuntu or Mint.
Xubuntu is a beautiful XFCE with Light-locker and much more. Ubuntu Mate is a good implementation of Mate with a great community. And Linux Mint has a great modern desktop that uses traditional paradigms. It is called Cinnamon.
Fedora is by no means a bad distro, but it might not be for you if you want it visually appealing from the start.
This is where I would usually spread the good word of my favorite Debian based distro Crunchbang. However the maintainer announced a few days ago that he was stepping down. So that being said it would still serve you well for a little while but I will suggest my second favorite Ubuntu-mate.
Edit add: I have a laptop that has slightly lower specifications then what you're describing and Ubuntu-mate 14.04 flies on it.
Does it need to be a 100% tablet/touchscreen experience? What about a GPD Pocket? It might be handy to have a physical keyboard available to you, plus the laptop form factor doubles as a stand for watching videos. You can get a used first-edition on ebay for a relatively good price.
Ubuntu MATE offers a custom ISO for it. http://ubuntu-mate.org/gpd-pocket/
To be quite frank, CentOS is generally designed for use for servers and older workstations rather than for normal desktop usage. Given the number of issues you've had setting up CentOS, it seems like you might want to try another Linux distribution
Probably the best supported distribution out there using MATE would be Ubuntu MATE, with VLC, NVIDIA driver support and proprietary codecs easily installable.
I've been building our game completely via Linux: http://www.dontbepatchman.com/
If you are doing 2D it is going to be a bit easier, as still a lot of 3D tools are Windows-only. Finding an open-source game engine is your best bet for the long-term, as Linux friendliness isn't assured otherwise. If you are doing 2D then look at Godot, Love2D, MOAI, cocos2dx, Haxe, libGDX, etc.
Desktop Environment: MATE is the best for this, IMO. Easily customizable, rock-solid, simple, and you can add fancy Compiz effects. I map "switch workspace" to my mouse thumb buttons for quick task switching. If you are using Lua don't hesitate to try ZeroBrane Studio.
We also launched our game as Linux-only on Steam. Everything from uploading the game, customizing the store page, etc, all done via Linux. Of course you will still need Windows and OSX machines to build, but you can get away with lower-end boxes for those.
Developing in Linux is WAY faster for me personally. I code a lot. And it gets very complex. The environment is just so stable, smooth, quick, and customizable, that I can't stand for anything less.
I would also consider looking at Ubuntu Mate. It's pretty lightweight as it is, but you can downconfigure the UI for bare-metal performance.
And after that have a look at the Numix Project.
DivineChaos91 pretty much said what I would have. If you do try the Linux route you might want to try out Ubuntu MATE or Linux Lite. They are more lightweight than regular Ubuntu and have a user interface similar to Windows.
Disclaimer: I don't use linux (but I want to start soon).
Linux will definitely be lighter on it. Also, your right. r/linux isn't really for this kind of question. r/linuxquestions and r/linux4noobs are more appropriate.
I like the looks of Ubuntu Mate and Linux Lite.
8 GB of ram is enough for any desktop enviorment. That said, if you want something snappy, I'd recommend either the MATE or XFCE enviorments. Both are simple, feature-rich, and use about 300-400 MB of RAM out of the box. There are Ubuntu spins for both:
Ubuntu MATE: http://ubuntu-mate.org/ Xubuntu: http://xubuntu.org/
Like I said I moved my #! boxes over to Ubuntu-mate. Besides being a different GUI it runs just as well on my old hardware. It's light easy to use gives you a lot out of you hardware.
http://ubuntu-mate.org - you can just download the ISO and install it similar to how Kodibuntu is installed.
Install Kodi from the Official Kodi PPA
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi
Ubuntu MATE Control Center -> Startup Applications -> Add Kodi to the list.
Once you do those three things you essentially have a much better version of Kodibuntu.
Crunchbang is not dead it is now #!++. Check out some of the latest stuff in /r/crunchbang. Also I would recommend Ubuntu-mate for older machines. I replace a very nontechnical friends xp install with Ubuntu-mate and the thing runs like a champ. It's basically netfix and Facebook box now but I haven't had to touch it scene I gave it back.
Edit: #!++ link