[Nottingham] New PC

[Martin]

Daryl,

Good it all came together.

And very wise to go for the reliable install rather than my example of
multiple adventures of a Frankenstein 'upgrade' of a multitude of
permutations!

Still think my way was more 'educational' and more fun :-)


Hope to see you later to compare findings,

Cheers,
Martin



On 28/02/18 12:32, Daryl via Nottingham wrote:
> I may have mentioned at the last meet that I was expecting delivery of
> the bits to make a new PC.
> 
> Well, I'm now in possession of a very nice AMD Ryzen 7 1700 based
> machine.  With one of my stated goals being running Linux on it and
> doing 100% of my work on it I can report some great success! It dual
> boots Windows 10, but everything I need/use has Linux versions.
> 
> I went with Ubuntu 17.10 running proper Gnome 3. Reasoning? I wanted the
> highest availability of pre-built packages and ease of setup. I
> considered Fedora and openSUSE too.
> 
> The only issues I've experienced are very typical Linux ones:
> 
> 1. My USB wireless dongle needed some tweaking and extra packages to get
> to work.
> 2. The font in LibreOffice doesn't display if I tweak the standard theme
> fonts. I get boxes rather than letters. I've noticed a few fonts preview
> like this generally so I need to look further. Still not fixed this.
> 3. Took a little time to get anti-aliasing and fonts looking good
> compared to Windows. Windows tends to favour legibility over accuracy.
> 
> Performance is incredible. Build and run times for my java app have
> dropped from 90-120 seconds on my SurfaceBook to around 12. The same
> build environment on Windows 10 on this same PC takes around 28 seconds
> so a win for open source!
> 
> I have to integrate with the evil empire, but Office365 in a browser
> solves that mostly but I'm using Hiri for Office365 e-mail. I've also
> got OneDrive syncing successfully. 
> 
> So, for the first time in many years I'm back to 100% native Linux for
> work. Games are forcing me to dual boot though...I love retro games and
> NEED to play System Shock 2!
> 
> Daryl.