[Linux Lite 4.8 Released As A Free And Light Windows 7 Alternative
Saija Grzegorek
An experienced linux user (not me lol) would do a CLI Arch Linux install with only required stuff and the lightest DE and WM available.
As with Arch Linux one can build the system from scratch as needed.
This is a good question!
I'd like to know that!
My favorite DE is XFCE with no doubt. I like KDE as well.
But XFCE FTW.
GNOME is all eye candy eating resources. It looks great but at HDW expense.
I don't care much about looks.
Linux Lite 4.8 Released As A Free And Light Windows 7 Alternative
Download Zip ☆☆☆ https://t.co/fpgFt9sUYz
No, I would not say that Zorin OS Lite is Core with XFCE instead of Gnome. Using a different Desktop Environment necessitates a bit of tweaking to ensure that everything meshes and provides a good user experience.
One example of this that a user can quickly look at is Zorin Layouts in Lite as opposed to Core.
Zorin OS Lite is optimized for speed and resource preservation which can provide a better experience on older hardware as much as it can on shiny new hardware.
I am very happy and content with Zorin and Mint's LMDE. If I liked Xfce, I think I would prefer Mint's Xfce or Linux Lite. MX Linux Xfce is solid too but I like that Mint has an upgrade path. So many choices! I am looking forward in the next few months to see what System76 does with their COSMIC desktop using Rust when the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS gets release in April. I am still a fan of their current version of COSMIC and what they are doing looks promising.
So nice to have Zorin, I have run many distros in the past years, including MX, mint, fedora, ubuntu, xubuntu, lubundu, Bodhi... Zorin is the best for me on T410 and VM, perfer xfce because of the low profile.
For sure Zorin is solid. I used to use Solus on an old Toshiba Satellite laptop using MATE primarily but also using KDE. Solus has improved after some problems for a few years. They just released a Beta version of Xfce which surprised me-it looks fantastic and seems exceptionally fast from my observation. I may consider trying out their KDE or GNOME versions and using it again as a daily driver. But, the nice part of Zorin is you know it will work just like Mint and that sense of confidence in your distribution of choice is priceless.
IMO nothing beats the balance of XFCE on old hardware.
The only thing that comes close is KDE.
Sure there's is LXQt (LXDE is basically old) but XFCE brings more to the table and it's the same across all distros.
Use 16.3 Lite since it may be a while. You will still have some of the newer software that is back-ported by Zorin and you have Flatpaks and Snaps for other software. Then when ZOS 17 Lite comes out and after the upgrade too comes out, you can upgrade. Or you can do a fresh installation. Up to you.
I can't give you an answer as to when ZOS 17 Lite will come out but it seems it will take from a few weeks to a few months. That is why I say just install the 16.3 Lite version which is still very much current and supported. Xfce has not changed much so I can't see big changes in ZOS 17 Lite but I am sure there will be all the special sauce that Zorin puts into their distributions.
Basically i found this link Getting Zorin OS Lite - Zorin Help
and I see the work of zorin 17.1 lite has started and you cab download the system from this link but i don't think that it is stable, but you can test it by yourself.
For example: RDP uses compression to speed up the screen casting,and especially video codecs.To support larger screens than full HD, it will use theAVC/H.264 video codec. This allows it to use the video GPUto speed up the video display and make it more fluid, but it will fall backto the CPU if it is not available.
Xpra
An open-source multi-platform persistent remote display server and client for forwarding applications and desktop screens. Among itsWikiis listed OpenGL client-side "for better window rendering performance" and server-side for "running accelerated OpenGL application",so it may be fast enough.
Apache Guacamole
A clientless remote desktop gateway whose viewer is any browser that supports HTML5. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH.As it supports the RDP protocol it might be fast enough, although thedocumentation does not mention which version of RDP.Setup documentation
I have used these two ones at work when I have to access Windows Servers at my Ubuntu desktop and I always have a good impression of rdesktop a free reverse engineering of RDP protocol. At this link bellow you can find reference for this.
xRDP works great on LAN scenarios per example even on WAN, but if u have a server that its very far away with high latency as expected, it fails, i tried to tweak xRDP without any improvement, as it states here its slow compared to Windows RDP, even on same latency and on same machine.
here it states why RDP from Windows its better than linux counterparts, but also there are some alternatives to achieve that smooth/feeling from windows RDP on linux, what u need its something using NX protocol, like Nomachine,Xpra and i found X2GO also use this.
it seems Xpra its a much better solution but since i couldnt move forward adding the PPK to the Xpra interface (Since EC2 servers on AWS uses this) and X2GO was so easy to use, just install and works, well X2GO its the winner for me
Marlon may be correct ... the issue may be on the server side. Perhaps you are limited by your hardware, as in some systems are assisted by use of the GPU for hardware acceleration (on the server). If you figure it out, please let us know so that we can benefit too.
I'm looking for an application that can act as an integrated Linux-like terminal for my Windows PC. For instance, I could roam around the file system, install applications like vi, etc. I would like this application to meet the following requirements,
Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface forMicrosoft Windows. Cygwin provides native integration of Windows-basedapplications, data, and other system resources with applications,software tools, and data of the Unix-like environment.
If you're looking for a package manager (e.g. apt-get or yum), Chocolatey is a possible Windows alternative. It doesn't contain all packages and some are occasionally outdated but it does have quite an impressive spread.
MSYS is much lighter weight than Cygwin, however it might not have everything you need. Obviously, you will have to evaluate that yourself. It definitely does meet all 5 of your bullet points. It's free, is has a Bash shell, you can interact with your current drives, its easy to install, and it works on Win10.
For a long time I used Git Bash (prettified with Console2), but I felt it quite lacking. I wanted more, but I was quite intimidated by Cygwin: I was afraid, perhaps unreasonably, of the bloat, and the difficulty of configuring the thing. I also wanted a reasonably good-looking terminal, and out-of-the-box cygwin just isn't very pretty. I'm afraid I'm going to sound like an advertisment, but Babun really just worked.
Windows 10, with the 2016 anniversary update, now provides a Bash Linux binary running on Windows itself. It can be accessed through any command prompt and can run UNIX-style commands (like ls) as it would with any other command. For more information about this, read the MSDN posts on the Windows Subsystem for Linux page.
What I use is a combination of Git Bash, which comes when you install Git, and ConEmu. Git Bash uses MinGW, and ConEmu provides the option to have multiple tabs and good colour schemes, the option to have a full screen terminal, and more.
MSYS2 is a fork of Cygwin created with the intention of being an updated environment to support building with MinGW. (That is, it's meant to serve as a better maintained alternative to the ever more out of date MSYS. See here for some details.) It functions well as a bash shell with Linux tools on a Windows machine.
In my mind, the biggest advantage of MSYS2 is the comparatively clean package management. Cygwin's and MSYS's package managers are, in my opinion, confusing and difficult to use. They're graphical and not very well integrated with the system itself. By contrast, MSYS2 ported Arch Linux's pacman, and all package management is done at the command line. There are a wealth of packages available and easily installable, from Python to Perl to vim to SVN to git to the MinGW compilers. There is a small hiccup with updating certain "core" packages: you have to restart your shell and run the update again, but this is vastly superior to having to launch some external graphical tool, in my opinion.
Especially with the powerline features, it just looks so nice. Also, if you want a linux environment to explore your actual Winodws PC, you could look at Windows Subsystem for Linux via Windows Terminal.
will still work fine. You may need cygwin or msys around to have access to the GNU coreutils like grep and uniq. Windows has some of it's own builtins under unixlike names that can blow stuff up, so be careful with the order of your PATH variable.
Need a new operating system that doesn't cost a penny? You might have heard about Linux, the free and open-source alternative to Windows. However, there are many other free operating systems for laptops and desktop PCs.
In some ways, this is another obvious choice. Chromium OS is the operating system that Google's ChromeOS is based on and is available to download for free. It's also suitable for installation on aging hardware.
Lightweight and with a focus on cloud computing, ChromeOS is one of the most well-known alternatives to Windows. Chromium OS has everything you would find on a Chromebook, making it great for web browsing, social networking, and word processing. However, it is less accomplished at media playback, and meaningful media editing is beyond its capabilities.
Many think that FreeBSD is just another Linux distribution. While sharing the Unix-like roots of Linux, FreeBSD is the modern, open-source version of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). You can consider FreeBSD as a relative of Linux and find its code in many places. These include Apple's macOS and Sony's PlayStation 4 operating systems.
795a8134c1