Korora Desktop Rollcall
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@stacksofplates said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
@tim_g said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
I'm replacing my current work desktop and laptop (T3610 and E6440) with a Latitude E7270.
I went that route because it's the last gen that still has the (now legacy) e-port dock slot on the bottom, and because of pricing... out the door with 3-year pro support for under $900.
It has a 6th Gen i7-6600U and 8 gigs RAM (got another 8 gig stick from newegg to make 16gb), which should be good enough to run a few VMs for dev work, and Dell provides Ubuntu 14.04 drivers for it... so Linux (Fedora) compatibility should be excellent... if not, I'll just slap on Ubunto. I don't have time to mess around atm.
It should be a nice change from the T3610... although it was a beast, I just don't think the Xeon in it played well with KVM, plus hardware issues with Windows, and some parodic freezing in Linux (I think related to Firefox and Chrome).
My E6440 has been excellent all around, so I'm expecting the same from the E7270.
I have an e7270 at home and at work. I'm running Fedora on both. Runs great.
Does it have the touch screen? If so how does it fair in Fedora?
I don't remember if the one I got has touch screen or not... wasn't paying attention to that feature.
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@tim_g said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
@stacksofplates said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
@tim_g said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
I'm replacing my current work desktop and laptop (T3610 and E6440) with a Latitude E7270.
I went that route because it's the last gen that still has the (now legacy) e-port dock slot on the bottom, and because of pricing... out the door with 3-year pro support for under $900.
It has a 6th Gen i7-6600U and 8 gigs RAM (got another 8 gig stick from newegg to make 16gb), which should be good enough to run a few VMs for dev work, and Dell provides Ubuntu 14.04 drivers for it... so Linux (Fedora) compatibility should be excellent... if not, I'll just slap on Ubunto. I don't have time to mess around atm.
It should be a nice change from the T3610... although it was a beast, I just don't think the Xeon in it played well with KVM, plus hardware issues with Windows, and some parodic freezing in Linux (I think related to Firefox and Chrome).
My E6440 has been excellent all around, so I'm expecting the same from the E7270.
I have an e7270 at home and at work. I'm running Fedora on both. Runs great.
Does it have the touch screen? If so how does it fair in Fedora?
I don't remember if the one I got has touch screen or not... wasn't paying attention to that feature.
Non touch. I had one laptop with a touch screen and I think I can count on one hand the number of times I used it. So I decided I wasn’t going to pay for that feature again.
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@stacksofplates said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
@tim_g said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
@stacksofplates said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
@tim_g said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
I'm replacing my current work desktop and laptop (T3610 and E6440) with a Latitude E7270.
I went that route because it's the last gen that still has the (now legacy) e-port dock slot on the bottom, and because of pricing... out the door with 3-year pro support for under $900.
It has a 6th Gen i7-6600U and 8 gigs RAM (got another 8 gig stick from newegg to make 16gb), which should be good enough to run a few VMs for dev work, and Dell provides Ubuntu 14.04 drivers for it... so Linux (Fedora) compatibility should be excellent... if not, I'll just slap on Ubunto. I don't have time to mess around atm.
It should be a nice change from the T3610... although it was a beast, I just don't think the Xeon in it played well with KVM, plus hardware issues with Windows, and some parodic freezing in Linux (I think related to Firefox and Chrome).
My E6440 has been excellent all around, so I'm expecting the same from the E7270.
I have an e7270 at home and at work. I'm running Fedora on both. Runs great.
Does it have the touch screen? If so how does it fair in Fedora?
I don't remember if the one I got has touch screen or not... wasn't paying attention to that feature.
Non touch. I had one laptop with a touch screen and I think I can count on one hand the number of times I used it. So I decided I wasn’t going to pay for that feature again.
I forget that the devices even have that. I find it totally useless.
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@Tim_G My Inspiron has a touchscreen and works well under Fedora with Cinnamon.
I have never bothered to setup any kind on on screen keyboard for it, but for basic touch to click functionality it works as expected.
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I use straight Fedora on everything i can. I use to switch OS's a lot but everything had more issues than Fedora did. Its just a great product. Running on HP Elitebook, Dell Precision, and an Asus something.
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@jmoore said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
I use straight Fedora on everything i can. I use to switch OS's a lot but everything had more issues than Fedora did. Its just a great product. Running on HP Elitebook, Dell Precision, and an Asus something.
What desktop environment do use?
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@jaredbusch said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
@Tim_G My Inspiron has a touchscreen and works well under Fedora with Cinnamon.
I have never bothered to setup any kind on on screen keyboard for it, but for basic touch to click functionality it works as expected.
Good to know. I'm not sure if mine has it, I think that I remember seeing it but may have been another one I was looking at. I'll report back in a week or whatever when it's delivered.
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I switched to XFCE on Fedora... on my desktop and laptop. Once I remove that bottom launcher panel thing... I think this one fits my workflow better. The only thing I wish it had was a searchable application menu. Is there anything I can do to XFCE to get that functionality without altering too much?
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@tim_g said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
I switched to XFCE on Fedora... on my desktop and laptop. Once I remove that bottom launcher panel thing... I think this one fits my workflow better. The only thing I wish it had was a searchable application menu. Is there anything I can do to XFCE to get that functionality without altering too much?
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@black3dynamite said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
@jmoore said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
I use straight Fedora on everything i can. I use to switch OS's a lot but everything had more issues than Fedora did. Its just a great product. Running on HP Elitebook, Dell Precision, and an Asus something.
What desktop environment do use?
I am partial to gnome but I tried cinnamon once on the Hp laptop and had no issues with it.
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@black3dynamite said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
@tim_g said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
I switched to XFCE on Fedora... on my desktop and laptop. Once I remove that bottom launcher panel thing... I think this one fits my workflow better. The only thing I wish it had was a searchable application menu. Is there anything I can do to XFCE to get that functionality without altering too much?
Perfect, thanks!
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Really like Fedora with KDE Plasma atm. Trying Deepin on my laptop too
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@jackcpickup said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
Really like Fedora with KDE Plasma atm. Trying Deepin on my laptop too
Deepin is surprisingly good.
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@scottalanmiller said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
@jackcpickup said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
Really like Fedora with KDE Plasma atm. Trying Deepin on my laptop too
Deepin is surprisingly good.
Love the look of it and my touchpad feels pretty good on it. Nextcloud client isn't proving very stable atm though, having to configure it again. Followed your guide setting that up (top result on Google!)
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@jackcpickup said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
@scottalanmiller said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
@jackcpickup said in Korora Desktop Rollcall:
Really like Fedora with KDE Plasma atm. Trying Deepin on my laptop too
Deepin is surprisingly good.
Love the look of it and my touchpad feels pretty good on it. Nextcloud client isn't proving very stable atm though, having to configure it again. Followed your guide setting that up (top result on Google!)
NC has been totally stable for me on Deepin.
