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Device is a ThinkPad T470 w/ Core i5-6400U, 8 GB RAM, and a Samsung 256 GB NvME drive

I decided to install Xubuntu on it. I was previously using Legacy BIOS on it. Xubuntu install with default...

There isn't a lot of point to learning all the CLI and other weird stuff at first IMO. A good starter distro like Ubuntu or Linux Mint is going to be all the further many (most?) users will need to...

I don't like KDE at all. I am an Xfce guy. Honestly though, if you're not gutting your UI and trying different DEs out, you are doing Linux wrong.

Different DEs are among the best projects for...

And some honest feedback for you: If you are not willing to learn, installing a different operating system on your computer is not for you. Enjoy what came with the machine at factory.

There are...

I use my desktop a lot for moving files around. I keep projects and things like that on the desktop. I don't really like keeping programs there. That said, when I am finished I like to tidy up...

I gave up using internal drives as my primary storage drives some time ago. I've had to many situations where my systems crashed and retrieving the data from an internal drive was going to...

As above, Intel NUCs are pretty rad. If you do something like this you get an i5 system for dirt cheap. That is maybe overkill as you could get by with a Celeron or Pentium for what you want but...

Haswell and Baytrail CPUs are beating ARM CPUs in battery life. There's a few different ARM chromebooks out there, probably the largest such example of a notebook powered by ARM. If you were so...

The nice thing about Linux is that a lot of that is baked right into the kernel so even radically different distros should have access to many of the same drivers.

I've been an Ubuntu user since 7.10 myself and I eventually gave up on non-LTS releases as I'd rather have stability over newer features. I am a fresh install proponent though. If you prefer to...

Elementary shows a lot of promise like Mint did when it first appeared. I imagine it will depart more and more from Ubuntu as it matures. They've got a lot of competition if they want to achieve...

Interesting. Any particular reason you're switching to Ubuntu? Seems like less trouble to run with Chromium OS and put back in the missing Gentoo pieces first.

If your goal is to provide...

It's safer now than it used to be LOL

On one of my old machines I ran Software Update from Ibex to Karmic and I probably just got lucky but I never had to reinstall over that time period. I've...

You will be fine. Linux does not take as much space as you might imagine. On my HP 14, I have two user accounts, both with offline sync enabled for Drive and various files stored locally, my Debian...

Your trackpad and sound ~SHOULD~ work out of the box with Trusty and the latest version of the crouton script. Both of these were issues in previous builds though so if you are having issues with...

If you go crouton, I highly recommend either precise (12.04) or trusty (14.04) with Xfce.


sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -r precise -t xfce

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -r trusty -t xfce

Are...

Your second link is for wiping the SSD entirely (thus completely discarding Chrome OS) and replacing it with a Linux distro, Debian in the case of the example. The first link you post details using...

Ubuntu Software Center is nice if you are new. It has big, friendly graphics and is fairly straightforward to use. However, it can be sluggish and glitchy. Synaptic is more like the geek's...

Assuming issues related to UEFI won't make installing Linux needlessly difficult, I suspect the right distro will only increase the value of these bingbooks. I've gone exclusive to chromebooks for...

Assuming you have a system that was sold in the last ten years or so, you likely don't need to search any further than Xubuntu or Lubuntu to build a working system. If you have something very arcane...

Truly writing your own OS requires a fairly sophisticated understanding of computer science. Linux itself was modeled on the older UNIX rather than truly being imagined from scratch. You can build...

Big thing will be to help your mom configure the applications to her liking. This is as easy as just preloading the software for her and giving her a quick run-through. If she's kind of sloppy with...

Feel free to dual boot. Linux is pretty outstanding. I use it exclusively for productivity. As a gamer you would never be happy trying to go all in with it. I absolutely loathe Windows and use...

One of the things that you have to understand about Linux is that all of its forms attract a wide variety of different people. Some people, militants like the Richard Stahlmans of the world, go so...

Desktop
Late 2012 Mac Mini
2.5 ghz Core i5
4GB RAM
500 GB HDD (5400 RPM)
Intel HD 4000

I run OS X (obviously...) and Windows 7 on this machine, mostly for media consumption, but also for...