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5 years 2 months ago #217038 by tommylight
Mint does not have 19.4 ! image missing /media/kunena/emoticons/devil.png
And i agree with RodW, QtPlasmaC is very slugish on 4GB of ram to the point jogging is useless for precise positioning of the torch, but with 8GB on the same PC it works like a charm.
All of that is understandable as i use Mint with Mate DE that is heavy on resources by itself, adding to that all the Qt cr@p just makes it worse.
Still it looks very nice and is a joy to use and has a ton of features that will put big boys to shame.
Personally i would have stuck with Axis and do a modern layout, but not sure how much trouble would that be. Axis works on a Pentium  3 or 2 or 1 although never tried on a 1! :)
BTW, i did try to change colors on QtPlasmaC, ended up somewhere between terrible and disgusting, so i reverted back to yelow, just LED's are blue.
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5 years 2 months ago #217039 by rodw
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Hold off for a bit, I may have installed standard 19.3 today from an existing download, my memory is so bad I can't remember. image missing /media/kunena/emoticons/smile.png
Tommy has mint 19.3 covered and its not any harder than MX Linux.
The latest Python 3 upgrade has added heaps more dependencies and I think a lot are to do with QT.

Based on what Tommy shared, I might go looking for some more RAM once we get out of lockdown...

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5 years 2 months ago #217040 by rodw
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Hold off for a bit, I may have installed standard 19.3 today from an existing download, my memory is so bad I can't remember. image missing /media/kunena/emoticons/smile.png
Tommy has mint 19.3 covered and its not any harder than MX Linux.
The latest Python 3 upgrade has added heaps more dependencies and I think a lot are to do with QT.

Based on what Tommy shared, I might go looking for some more RAM once we get out of lockdown...

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5 years 2 months ago #217041 by rodw
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Hold off for a bit, I may have installed standard 19.3 today from an existing download, my memory is so bad I can't remember. image missing /media/kunena/emoticons/smile.png

The forum has excelled itself now. thats nothing like what I wrote!

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5 years 2 months ago - 5 years 2 months ago #217043 by snowgoer540

Mint does not have 19.4 !
And i agree with RodW, QtPlasmaC is very slugish on 4GB of ram to the point jogging is useless for precise positioning of the torch, but with 8GB on the same PC it works like a charm.
All of that is understandable as i use Mint with Mate DE that is heavy on resources by itself, adding to that all the Qt cr@p just makes it worse.
Still it looks very nice and is a joy to use and has a ton of features that will put big boys to shame.
Personally i would have stuck with Axis and do a modern layout, but not sure how much trouble would that be. Axis works on a Pentium 3 or 2 or 1 although never tried on a 1! :)
BTW, i did try to change colors on QtPlasmaC, ended up somewhere between terrible and disgusting, so i reverted back to yelow, just LED's are blue.

As far as I can discern, the only thing that Mint has is a taskbar that makes windows users feel "safe" :laugh:.

In all honestly, I run MX Linux on 4Gb of ram, be it VM or Cutting hardware. It's snappy, and I do a TON of rapid button clicks when testing stuff, and it all responds instantly. This tells me that it's a OS problem and not a QtVCP or QtPlasmaC or ... problem.

It begs the question: If one has to add 4Gb of ram to make the OS usable, hunt down tons of dependencies, and a bunch of other stuff to make it work, how is it "better"?

When I had Mint, I only went there because the WiFi worked much better in my garage, it didn't cut out all of the time like with Buster. Perhaps I had the wrong driver, idk. Anyways, since going to MX Linux, I still have no problems with my WiFi. As I recall I think Rod has a pretty old WiFi adapter, so it may be worth the $12 investment to get a new WiFi USB dongle (I am happy to link you to the one I have if you'd like) vs dumping in more ram to make an OS usable. Just my $0.02.

I do encourage you to give the tires another kick when I get the user guide created.


Lastly, I agree, the editor seems to be getting worse, I had to manually copy and paste tommy's text to quote it. It only brought in the first sentence the first time.

Oh, one more lastly, when editing things with lots of quotes, code, etc. I found that it puts all of the [/] at the end, while their [] stay put, abandoned :). I just copy paste them to the right place one by one until it's correct. It's a real PITA, but that's what I've been doing.
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5 years 2 months ago #217044 by phillc54
The 19.3 and 19.4 I am referring to are MX-Linux.

As I have said before I run my table with 2Gb RAM with no problems at all. I do keyboard, GUI button and wireless USB jogging without issue. 
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