I forgot to add that i had to change to desktop profile from network- throughput in order to manage to copy my photo files from my external hard disk to my laptop. If i didnt do that my laptop froze. :-! Had to On Tue, 2019-10-15 at 16:02 +0200, Georgios wrote: > Well kind of. > > for example i had to do the following stuff for my laptop > > > -add epel repository so i can install keepassxc > -manual install eclipse > -enable rpmfusion in order to have > --media support on my browser and > --install totem codecs in order for it to play video files > > With flatpak i think centos is more desktop friendly. > The rest of the apps where installed through flatpak so it was quite > easy. Most of these apps arent on Centos repositories so without > flatpak it would be a bit difficult. > Also with flatpak you can have newer versions of the apps that could > be > a problem. > > Besides that i have to say. > > flatpak itself is really old and it doesn't support my yubikey. > Thats the reason i had to install keepassxc through epel repository > and > not flatpak. > I do hope flatpak gets updated on a future point release. > > > Another problem i currently have is that evolution after suspense > sometimes it seems to brake. It happened 2 times last weeks but i > could > not reproduce. > > > I previous had debian 9 and 10. > If i compare these 2 i have to say. > > Centos 8 had a bit less configuration for laptop compared with debian > 9 > but a bit more compared to debian 10. > > I guess it all depends what you want to do with your laptop. > For basic usage it seems fine. > > Anyway for the time being it seems usable. > But i wouldn't recommend it to someone who use linux for the first > time. > I would suggest ubuntu or something like this. > > > > On Tue, 2019-10-15 at 14:18 +0100, John Hodrien wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > > > > CentOS is a desktop distribution in the sense that chickens fly > > > and > > > horses > > > swim. Of course you can turn it into a full-blown bells-and- > > > whistles desktop > > > by fine-tuning the configuration and adding lots of third-party > > > stuff. I've > > > done this myself for years, here for example: > > > > > > https://www.microlinux.fr/poste-de-travail-entreprise-centos-7-kde/ > > > > > > On the other hand, CentOS out of the box is a rather frustrating > > > experience > > > on the desktop. > > > > I've always disagreed with this view, however common it appears to > > be. > > > > RHEL is sold as an Enterprise OS for Server, Cloud, Desktop, > > Laptop. CentOS > > surely shouldn't be seen any differently. > > > > What is it that makes CentOS a bad desktop OS? > > > > I can install CentOS 8 on my laptop now, with a perfectly usable > > desktop, and > > 10 years of support. Google Chrome runs just fine, and I can use > > containers > > via singularity on top for anything exotic. > > > > What exactly am I missing out on by not running something else? > > > > jh > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos