As soon as Ubuntu 14.04 came out, I wanted to get the upgrade. And the other weekend I did. This meant a bit of instability on the first few boots, but it went away. One thing I didn't check on, which I should have is the status of my Software RAID. It seems after the upgrade it went out of sync, and I didn't give it time to sync up. So yesterday, I ran an update, and accidentally thought of checking my Disk status. And that's why the system was bit hung.
My desktop is a bit of a mix. I use GNOME, and KDE, my wife uses GNOME. This sometimes causes conflicts, on my desktop. I am hoping to clear those up. For example, I can't properly run a distro upgrade from KDE, I had to login it GNOME, where I was able to upgrade my system, not sure why, but it worked this way. Is upgrading worth it, so far I haven't seen the benefits, except that digiKam is the upgraded version, which I am happy for.
Showing posts with label Desktop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Desktop. Show all posts
Monday, April 28, 2014
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Do you really need a desktop?
For the past 2 weeks, my desktop computer has been disassembled, and my wife and I don't even miss it. We both have a tablet, and I have a laptop as well, which I use for photo processing once or twice per month. We just talked about it the other day, that we don't even miss the Desktop.
We can do all our online activities, reading email, social networking, and even keeping in touch with family via Google's lookout or Skype. While I do sometimes use the laptop, for processing pictures, I don't even need a powerful machine to achieve that, and the laptop does it without breaking a sweat.
I tried downloading and processing the images on my little 7" tablet, but this form factor is only good for reading. If I were to download and edit images on a tablet, it would need to be at least a 10.1, and with more muscle than my little 7" Prestigio.
Since I am an IT professional, who spends like 99% of work time in front of the computer, when I get home I don't miss the monitor, so I usually read on my tablet at night. While I don't think you can get everything done with a tablet, even if you have a top of the line tablet, a powerful desktop is no longer a requirement for everyday usage as it was in the past. Every household had at least one powerful desktop, and maybe a laptop, that was mostly for Word processing, a little surfing and emailing. But photo editing, and heavier stuff needed the desktop power.
These days, even the lower category laptops can handle much more than what laptops 10 years ago could.
I just installed linux on a sub $500 laptop, which had 4 CPU core's, and 6GB or RAM. Now it was a joke running Ubuntu on that machine, of course, I could max out the CPU if I start Trans-coding, decoding, encoding video, but then I wouldn't buy that cheap a laptop. That laptop, can do all that is needed for a regular household, and then some.
I would argue even that having a Decent Laptop at home, and a tablet would cover all needs. But then again, that's just my opinion.
We can do all our online activities, reading email, social networking, and even keeping in touch with family via Google's lookout or Skype. While I do sometimes use the laptop, for processing pictures, I don't even need a powerful machine to achieve that, and the laptop does it without breaking a sweat.
I tried downloading and processing the images on my little 7" tablet, but this form factor is only good for reading. If I were to download and edit images on a tablet, it would need to be at least a 10.1, and with more muscle than my little 7" Prestigio.
Since I am an IT professional, who spends like 99% of work time in front of the computer, when I get home I don't miss the monitor, so I usually read on my tablet at night. While I don't think you can get everything done with a tablet, even if you have a top of the line tablet, a powerful desktop is no longer a requirement for everyday usage as it was in the past. Every household had at least one powerful desktop, and maybe a laptop, that was mostly for Word processing, a little surfing and emailing. But photo editing, and heavier stuff needed the desktop power.
These days, even the lower category laptops can handle much more than what laptops 10 years ago could.
I just installed linux on a sub $500 laptop, which had 4 CPU core's, and 6GB or RAM. Now it was a joke running Ubuntu on that machine, of course, I could max out the CPU if I start Trans-coding, decoding, encoding video, but then I wouldn't buy that cheap a laptop. That laptop, can do all that is needed for a regular household, and then some.
I would argue even that having a Decent Laptop at home, and a tablet would cover all needs. But then again, that's just my opinion.
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Switched from Gnome, to KDE
Been using Gnome for the past 4 years at least, but I decided to switch to KDE after trying it again. I seem to recall that KDE wasn't stable enough. I must have tried it when v3 was having stability problems, and then v4 was in between as well. Lately, I switched to the latest that comes with Ubuntu 13.04 and I like it more. It get more tweaking, and it's pretty stable.
Gnome has become too minimalistic to my taste, although I like the approach, but too much tweaking was needed to customize it to my taste.
I also like digiKam application, it's way better than shotwell. It's got a two pane comparison window when editing images, that is an excellent feature. I do feel that shotwell is faster a bit, but I can live with the slowness for those options.
Gnome has become too minimalistic to my taste, although I like the approach, but too much tweaking was needed to customize it to my taste.
I also like digiKam application, it's way better than shotwell. It's got a two pane comparison window when editing images, that is an excellent feature. I do feel that shotwell is faster a bit, but I can live with the slowness for those options.
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