So Glad to Have Rediscovered Puppy
Posted: Mon 05 Feb 2018, 09:10
Hello Everyone,
Well, it has been six years since I have posted on this forum. I just wanted to applaud the Puppy developers, the community and the distro itself.
I have have been away from my Linux hobby for a good while. My little daughter was born in 2011 and that is where most of my time goes now. But my story is just this:
I received a new laptop for Christmas last year. A reasonably good spec, 4 core AMD with 8GB memory. But it had Windows 10 on it, and I despise it. I would have normally just wiped the drive and installed some flavor of Linux, but my wife does not like using Linux, so I left it alone. Besides, with the new boot configurations, I couldn't figure out how to dual boot it because you have to jump through hoops to boot from anywhere but the hard drive and I just didn't the time to investigate it. So when I wanted to do anything in Linux, I had to use my 2008 Toshiba Equium AMD64 dual core. I had Ubuntu on it and originally, it ran great. But, after six years of update/upgrades of Ubuntu, it had finally become so bloated and corrupt I knew I had to get rid of it and start over. So, I backed everything up to my personal cloud at home and wiped the drive. I never anticipated what would come next. Only one or two of the new versions of Linux would even install to it. Everything would just hang during the process. The only thing that would install and run was Linux Mint Cinnemon, but it has issues as well. It will not shut down properly and it is just too slow on this old Laptop. I believe I have tried 5 or 6 live distros looking for one that would install. After a week of testing, I gave Puppy Xenial on a USB stick a try.
Wow, I have been blown away the vast difference and improvements since I last used Puppy in 2012. It runs from the USB stick on this old laptop like it was brand new: radically fast! It is also a COMPLETE distro now. I used to feel I was missing a lot when I used it last (maybe it was the bells and whistles that weren't there.)
I have left Linux Mint on the hard drive for the moment while I continue testing Puppy Xenial. I have to relarn everything I used to know. But so far, if installing it to the hard drive means I will have this kind of performance permently, I'll do a full install and leave it at that.
So, I just want to say that I am grateful that this project has continued for so long to give us the product we now have.
Thank you and long live my dinosaur laptop!!
Bob
Well, it has been six years since I have posted on this forum. I just wanted to applaud the Puppy developers, the community and the distro itself.
I have have been away from my Linux hobby for a good while. My little daughter was born in 2011 and that is where most of my time goes now. But my story is just this:
I received a new laptop for Christmas last year. A reasonably good spec, 4 core AMD with 8GB memory. But it had Windows 10 on it, and I despise it. I would have normally just wiped the drive and installed some flavor of Linux, but my wife does not like using Linux, so I left it alone. Besides, with the new boot configurations, I couldn't figure out how to dual boot it because you have to jump through hoops to boot from anywhere but the hard drive and I just didn't the time to investigate it. So when I wanted to do anything in Linux, I had to use my 2008 Toshiba Equium AMD64 dual core. I had Ubuntu on it and originally, it ran great. But, after six years of update/upgrades of Ubuntu, it had finally become so bloated and corrupt I knew I had to get rid of it and start over. So, I backed everything up to my personal cloud at home and wiped the drive. I never anticipated what would come next. Only one or two of the new versions of Linux would even install to it. Everything would just hang during the process. The only thing that would install and run was Linux Mint Cinnemon, but it has issues as well. It will not shut down properly and it is just too slow on this old Laptop. I believe I have tried 5 or 6 live distros looking for one that would install. After a week of testing, I gave Puppy Xenial on a USB stick a try.
Wow, I have been blown away the vast difference and improvements since I last used Puppy in 2012. It runs from the USB stick on this old laptop like it was brand new: radically fast! It is also a COMPLETE distro now. I used to feel I was missing a lot when I used it last (maybe it was the bells and whistles that weren't there.)
I have left Linux Mint on the hard drive for the moment while I continue testing Puppy Xenial. I have to relarn everything I used to know. But so far, if installing it to the hard drive means I will have this kind of performance permently, I'll do a full install and leave it at that.
So, I just want to say that I am grateful that this project has continued for so long to give us the product we now have.
Thank you and long live my dinosaur laptop!!
Bob