<div dir="ltr">I would suggest in the future if you're asking a new question to start a new thread rather than replying to a post created for an unrelated topic.<div><br></div><div>Seeing as I'm already responding though I'll recommend using ubuntu based environments which are largely reskinned for ease of use (maybe zorin for windows users or elementary OS for mac). Linux Mint has always seemed to have a good response with new users as well. If you're totally against ubuntu based distributions you could try Manjaro, but considering the significant differences under the hood you're likely to encounter problems somewhere so you'll need to enjoy tinkering.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://distrowatch.com">distrowatch.com</a> should have plenty information available for making an informed decision.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 22:02, Nicolas Cadieux <<a href="mailto:njacadieux.gitlab@gmail.com">njacadieux.gitlab@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi,<div><br><div>Why I will probably go Linux on my Windows 7 laptop. The desktop will probably need to stay on Windows because of the other stuff. I don’t want a dual boot.</div><div><br></div><div>What disto would you consider that makes it easy for inexperienced Linux users. Seems like every time I installed Ubuntu, I ended up breaking it beyond repair... </div><div><br></div><div>Any GIS friendly distros to recommend?</div><div><br><div dir="ltr">Nicolas Cadieux<div>Ça va bien aller!</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">Le 2 sept. 2020 à 10:47, chris hermansen <<a href="mailto:clhermansen@gmail.com" target="_blank">clhermansen@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div>Nicolas Maria and list,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 2, 2020, 07:31 Nicolas Cadieux <<a href="mailto:njacadieux.gitlab@gmail.com" target="_blank">njacadieux.gitlab@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Not a big MAC user here. <div><br><div>I expect the first machines will mostly focus on low power and long battery life and not on performance. I would hesitate before going that route, at least in the first year. I think boot camp will be no longer be an option as this is just a drive partition with windows and that cannot work with ARM. The option would be running Windows in a virtual machine and that I always a bad idea, imho. I also wonder if QGIS will be available for those computers. I expect it will take some time.<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm neither a Mac nor a Windows user. Perhaps an upgrade to Linux is worth considering, especially with Lenovo joining the list of companies supplying Linux laptops. Those Dell XPS running Linux are every bit as pretty and solid as an Air. For my part I will likely stick to System76.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But I believe Microsoft released a Slate last fall running Windows 10 for ARM. I gather the main interest at this point is double the battery life. Apparently the machine has been well reviewed.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div><br><div dir="ltr">Nicolas Cadieux<div>Ça va bien aller!</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">Le 2 sept. 2020 à 10:22, Maria Niermann (23153112) <<a href="mailto:23153112@student.uwa.edu.au" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">23153112@student.uwa.edu.au</a>> a écrit :<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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Apparently this development sends developers scrambling unless they already have apps running on iOS.
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