Hello I'm a student who is studying programing ! And I program on my Samsung 9 series laptop. I program for the language c at the moment and I needed linux os. However I want to know which one would be the best for my samsung laptop. A linux os which is light on the battery and doesn't have bloodly 10 thosand firmware updates and such, also one which isn't intermidating. Thanks !!
Try out mint, or maybe a lightweight version of ubnuntu such as xbubuntu or lubuntu.
fedora isn't bad either. IF you're looking for a fully loaded Linux, alot of people might disagree but Red Hat has a lot to offer for programmers.
debian 7 (fedora is ridiculous and can take 1/2 a day just to compile) there is allso arch linux but you need good linux knowledge to install it and set it up.
Debian is rock solid stable and just runs and runs.
Fedora installation is just like installing any other linux distro.
^^^ no it isent linux shude take 15/20 mins to install not allday!
feel bad for you, never had a problem installing fedora, 30 min usually. Though i've only done it twice.
Get Manjaro. It's Arch, but with much better (and existant) UEFI installation.
Mint
Ubuntu
Trisquel
Manjaro
Pinguy
Linux Lite
Fedora
ElementaryOS
and there are a ton more, these are just my favorites
Yup, Fedora installs very quickly, and with yumex it also has the fastest package manager to install software.
Fedora is a great choice for developing, all the tools are in the official repo in latest version. It's bleeding edge, you have access to all the latest and greatest kernel features. That's why I use Fedora for developing. It's also super stable, despite being bleeding edge. It's as stable as Debian stable really.
Don't go for Ubuntu or Ubuntu based Mint or any other Ubuntu based distro for development, you'll probably want to stick to the mainline free and open source development, which Ubuntu strays away from.
Fedora needs two things after install: install yumex with yum, and install fedora utils to do a lot of stuff easily and practically, including installing non-free graphics drivers and other non-free applications.
Just one pro tip: don't use the standard Fedora package manager, it sucks, just use yumex. Yum from the CLI is the most powerful package manager of all linux CLI package managers, use that to update/upgrade.
Other benefit of Fedora: it has FedUp, a tool for easy version upgrading, that makes Fedora as easy to upgrade as a rolling release distro.
Most big companies and universities use RPM-based distros like fedora/centos/RHEL or OpenSuSE/SuSE, might as well get used to it, it may give you an edge.
Just play around with other distros also, especially advanced distros like arch and even more advanced distros like gentoo. It's always good to know a bit of everything, and it's part of the coolness of open source.
You have to choose which one is the best for you
I've got a question with Fedora; how does it handle gaming with Steam and such programs. Also, i know Adobe is getting ready do design their suite for Linux, but how well does emulation work on the newer editions? When i used Fedora, i had tons of problems trying to run Windows programs, but OSX not so much.
Than something is wrong with your computer.
Seen a lot of people for mint but no orion or hybrid hmmm... aanyhow I don't know anything about programing just know those are remotely easy to use / not intemidating and normally offer most of what I need aside from toying with backtrack which is now Kali but alas most of this is probably useless to you unless you're bored and just scouring through flavors...
Woah.. overload of information. Mm I used ubuntu and it was absolutely horrid. Video playback was choppy the amount of updating incredibly ridiculous. I've seen people use mint. Look this piece of information might be more useful. I've previously only used MACOX to develop. Other then that ubuntu but its such a hassle. Okay so I will probably choose mint but for mint any good beginners tutorial out there ? I search on youtube and its seems only to talk about updates..
Well, to be honest that doesn't depend on the distro at all, Steam can run on any distro, wine can run on any distro. Wine is at version 1.7 now, and it does a great job, Steam can be one-click-installed on Fedora with Fedora Utils. A lot of people have problems when they try to install Steam on their linux system, because Steam requires the 32-bit libs of the graphics driver, it's not 64 bits, it's 32 bits only like most games are, they haven't entered the 21st Century yet lol. If you use a one-click-install function (with Fedora Utils on Fedora or Yast 1-click-install on OpenSuSE), or choose a distro that has Steam preinstalled (Manjaro), you don't have to worry about it. Otherwise it's simple enough, search for nvidia or catalyst in your package manager, and search for the 32-bit version of the package that's marked as installed on your system, click it to install it, click agree or execute, and when you install Steam after that, you'll have no problem whatsoever, Steam is not a crazy program, it's basically a hacked up old version firefox browser with some bling, it's really nothing special to make it run.
I suppose start here http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/search I looked up a few videos back in the day myself bot most of the things I really got use from were forums. My uncle doesn't like touching linux he's pretty much stranded without simple youtube searches like linux java update :P