gerera.blogg.se - Linux mint reviews 2013

Don't play with the DDM (Device Driver Manager) installing proprietary programs (as I did with Nvidia drivers), this can mess up your system completely. Thus with CRTs you can get an ugly flickering.

The SolydXK installer sets the highest monitor resolution it can detect.

Recent Linux distributions seem to be different in handling/defaulting networking hardware, since so far my hardware was working out of the box but had now to be tweaked.

Try to get your network connection running (within the live system) before any installation! If you encounter network driver problems you still can do online researches with your old system.

First of all select your keyboard layout immediatly after starting the live system, so you don't get annoyed while doing any typing.

The installation runs flawlessly, nevertheless I'll give you a few hints: As a tiny con in contrast to the Ubuntu installer(s) there is no possibility to set encryption for the hard disk respective the home directory. During installation there are checkboxes for setting up GRUB (bootloader) and enabling Plymoth (Linux splash screen) which give you the choice for using these features or not. I should mention, that I did not run a partitioning program, since the disk was well prepared for Linux, but the installer offers this possibility too (with GParted).

The installer is very straightforward and does a fast job. Installation SolydXK downloads are hybrid images, so you can easyly install via USB stick. This text hopefully helps to change that. Currently SolydXK ranges in the middle of the Distrowatch list (which is not a real use case statistics list, it rather mirrors the awareness level of Linux distributions). Actually the name SolydXK stands for two products, SolydX coming with the Xfce desktop and SolydK offering KDE. But I don't like the Ubuntu way handling Linux (though from an evolutionary point of view it is good that Ubuntu stimulates the open source awareness and discussions), so the test range was targeted to directly Debian based distributions.įinally I decided on installing SolydX which is made, as I learned later on, by the formerly LMDE team. One nights review of distributions offering Xfce out of the box resulted mostly with Ubuntu based products like XUbuntu for example. Recently the Linux Mint team dropped my favored Linux distribution named Linux Mint Debian Xfce. Last Review: 2013-Nov-11 SolydXK the rock-solid successor of Linux Mint Debian Xfce 2013 September - November AJvG - SolydXK the rock-solid successor of Linux Mint Debian Xfce