Which version of Linux are you using?

You could take look at alsamixer in terminology to start for sound issues. pavucontrol is another option
Not sure what AjKula66 is running, for older machines sometimes legacy will be a bit faster, (but you get an older version of Enlightenment E17...). 32 bit has E 19.3 (state of the art) and you can generally get better support in the bodhi forum (more users)
Turquoisegirl http://www.bodhilinux.com/2015/02/17/bodhi-linux-3-0-0-release/ generally installs work better with USB drives and it is a good idea to verify the md5sum before creating the media and once the media is created run integrity check from the install media before using it.

 

Hmmm...might give this a try on my Frankenpad sometime soon!

@ajkula66. Any luck with the audio? My TR4050e could very well replicate the same audio issue as your T42p. Will be nice to get a new distro to replace the Crunchbang I have installed currently.

 

Centos 5.8, Redhat 5, Scientific 5, Kali 1.01

 

ROSA Desktop R5 x86_64 on all my 5 notebooks at home)

 

Roll my own with OpenEmbedded.

 

Playing around with chromixium os right now and its pretty nice.
It's basically ubuntu 14.04 LTS running openbox and themed to resemble chrome os.
Sort of mix between peppermint's "web apps" but with a sleek "elementary" style look.
Of course you have access to install anything from the ubuntu repos.


http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=chromixium

 

I run Debian all my machines, mobile and stationary -- I like it for the stability and the rolling release scheme and in general it provides most tools a developer would need. But sometimes the package versions feel a little bit out of date(for example gnome 3.16 has not been included yet over a month after release, not even in Debian unstable)... If I have time I may switch to Arch Linux at some point to be able to get software packages with recent versions.

 

I've been using gentoo linux for over a decade, but also occasionally linux mint and now recently archlinux, all of which I have computers/liveusbs with each of them, and virtual environments for several other distros.

 

I run LXLE on my I-mac. LXLE and Mint Cinn on my ToughBooks. Puppy, LXLE and Mint on my think pads and Dells. Actually like the way that LXLE just seems to "find" drivers that other os's just miss. Blue tooth key board and mouse were functional out of the box for my I-mac. Mint didn't do that.

 

Kali linux on Alienware 17 R2

 

I have just joined the community and installed Linux Mint Cinnamon. I will probably also install KDE as I am a bit more familiar with that. Also I like more than one GUI installed usually.

 

Mint Cinnamon 17.1 on an Inspiron 1545.

 

Switched over my laptop from Ubuntu 14.04 to Linux Mint 17.2. My desktop also has a development VM that is currently running Mint 17.1.

 

I was Linux Mint 17.1 but now 17.2 final is available for Cinnamon, XFCe, KDE and Mate. My upgrade just came through.

 

Ubuntu 14.04 just as a homeserver.

 

I use Kubuntu 15.04 atm. I find the Ubuntu-based distros great because almost every program has a ppa on Launchpad, so it is really easy to install programs.

 

Installed Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela on an old Thinkpad T60 for my parents. They have it docked and hooked up to a 23" monitor. Works fine and my father has been familiar with Linux Mint since the 16 Petra release.

 

Give Arch a try. You'll be pleasantly surprised.

 

Manjaro everyone loves arch + easy

 

Kali is good


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Installed are Mint13 Mate and KDE, and 17.1, PCLinuxOS latest (best for a newbie to Linux), and Fedora 17 and 22. Linux is great for husbanding Windows, esp. Windows XP, so I don't have to give it up. I install Linux only externally. In other words, I follow the installer instructions, but instead of specifying an internal drive as the target for installation, I specify an external drive or stick. That provides full persistence, a full official installation without touching my Windows internal drives.

And I still don't know but at most 12 Linux commands. So it's not like you have to learn Linux, to use it. Made all the above using the downloads, but now anyone can buy the sticks in Amazon via Prizix (which I also just did for CentOS, Mageia, other distros).

No Windows person should be without one of these. I couldn't keep my XP machines going online without it, and now that Win10 is forcing itself on Win7 machines, I just use Linux online and Windows offline, and don't need to mess with Win7 updates anymore. (Win8 I won't use, only have one test copy installed, so to get the lone Win10 I have but won't use anymore.)

 

In my university's CS program, where Linux is not only the norm but required (all programs need to run on lab machines for grading), I maybe know 12 commands at most by heart. For everything else, there's Google and the man pages.

 

True, Jarhead. Yet it would be worth learning. For as you get into the OS, it is often easier to type what you want done than to hunt through the GUI to see how it's organized. For a new person coming from Windows, the GUI is better, but after I've gotten used to Linux solo, I won't want the GUI anymore.

 

Oh no, totally in agreement about the speed of CLI vs GUI (at least assuming a badly-designed GUI). However, almost all of my work on Linux revolves around programming, so I'm mostly only familiar with gcc/g++, clang, gdb, valgrind, etc. by heart, as well as cd/mkdir/ls/other basic filesystem commands. Most anything else I use is either browser-based or only has a GUI / makes more sense as a GUI (Eagle CAD, for example).

For Windows, the GUI definitely feels more like a "first-class citizen" than the Windows CLI, whereas in *nix they both feel equal to me.

 

Mint Cinnamon 17.2
I tried Ubuntu a few times but I just didn't feel at home in it, coming from Win 7

I liked Lubuntu but I missed some of Cinnamon's features so I switched back.

I'm using an old Thinkpad T500, but Mint boots in 22 seconds with an SSD, and everything feels snappy, so I'm not too desperate for a lighter distro

 

Download a copy of Arch and will be playing around with it in a virtual machine with OpenBox WM installed. I'm not too happy with the performance of Mint 17 + Cinnamon on a VM on top of the Elitebook's i3-5010U, so maybe this will be an improvement (plus it'll be fun to build up my own Linux).

 

Arch is hardly building ones own environment. A few package groups and you're mostly set.

 

Xubuntu on the Joggler.
XBMC over an Ubuntu base (IIRC) on the Raspberry Pi.
FreeBSD and Slackware on laptops - although FreeBSD works better for me so the Slackware install has more of an educational use.

 

True, but it allows me to cut down on my CPU usage quite a bit, compared to Mint + Cinnamon.

 

Use the Lubuntu 15.04 for two simple reason.
My old man PC can no more. ( I have a Dell Optiplex 745, Intel dual core, 1 GB ram) and I really like, it
I really enjoyed the Mint, but is heavy for the machine. The Ubunto 15.04 is heavier than Lubunto and I really don't like the graphics. Kali Linux, in addition to heavy is only for absolute Linux fans.