[CentOS] Browser doesnt work

Tue Oct 15 14:13:20 UTC 2019
Georgios <gpdsbe+centos at mailbox.org>

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
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