On 8/16/16 1:15 AM, WhatMeWorry wrote:
> So, did you get the free pinwheel?
>
> http://airtop-pc.com/airtop/natural-airflow-technology/

Yes, and it works as advertised. -- Andrei

On Sunday, 14 August 2016 at 17:30:21 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 August 2016 at 16:27:51 UTC, qznc wrote:
>> On Saturday, 13 August 2016 at 14:52:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 08/13/2016 08:37 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>>> Friends don't let friends use Linux Mint
>>> Good to know, thanks. So what should I use then? -- Andrei
>>
>> I use Ubuntu LTS, because one breaking upgrade every two years is enough. I recently spent a few hours to get my laptop nvidia card back to work.
>
> The "crash and back to login screen" bug I guess ? We're so many people to have encountered it. On OpenSuse 13.2 I cannot get G04 to work anymore since months but G03 is fine.

Yes. Although "crash and back to login screen" is probably the symptom for many graphics related problems and not a specific bug. In my case, the solution was to switch to the legacy nvidia-340 driver.

On Saturday, 13 August 2016 at 14:52:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 08/13/2016 08:37 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Friday, 12 August 2016 at 19:13:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> googled for the better part of an afternoon for "fanless desktop" and
>>> it turns out it's much harder to find one than I'd
>>
>> Quiet doesn't necessarily mean fanless. I have a Corsair H100i with
>> Noctua fans, and you can barely tell it's on.
>>
>>> I've put Linux Mint on it (which is what they recommend)
>>
>> Friends don't let friends use Linux Mint:
>>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4v116g/can_we_stop_recommending_linux_mint/
>>
>>
>> https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/
>>
>> Not mentioned above: Linux Mint's upgrade policy is "format and
>> reinstall". Their update policy is also "If it ain't broke, don't try to
>> fix it". No wonder they have internal security issues.
>
> Good to know, thanks. So what should I use then? -- Andrei

At home I use Manjaro (https://manjaro.org/) and am quite happy with it (ArchLinux based, rolling release). They have various official desktops (I use XFCE), Cinnamon is available as a community edition:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/manjarolinux/files/community/

Being ArchLinux based, it's "cutting edge" most of the time, unlike Ubuntu.

On Tuesday, 16 August 2016 at 08:44:17 UTC, Chris wrote:
>
> At home I use Manjaro (https://manjaro.org/) and am quite happy with it (ArchLinux based, rolling release). They have various official desktops (I use XFCE), Cinnamon is available as a community edition:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/manjarolinux/files/community/
>
> Being ArchLinux based, it's "cutting edge" most of the time, unlike Ubuntu.

The good thing about Manjaro is that they do their own tests before each release, and if there's a problem with, say the latest version of the X-window server, they won't include it till it's fixed. You can choose between various kernels in the system settings dialog.