Introductions and Current Status

Michael Havens bmike1 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 14 19:36:06 MST 2011


Can't you just install another browser?

On 11/14/11, Thomas Gail Haws <tom.haws at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm still on the fence as to which distro will take
>>
> the lead when Ubuntu fails, unless they wise up and default to something
>> other
>> than unity. I'm not trying to start a flame war, but I really think Unity
>> is a
>> mistake.
>>
>
> No argument there, Nathan.  I've been on PLUG one year now since I decided
> to augment my business doing LAMP programming.  So I'm rather green.
>
> I always wanted to run Linux, but I took the "role" of disinterested user.
> I decided I would run Linux when it was ready to run for me.  I
> occasionally tried this or that distro.  I remember Knoppix.  When Ubuntu
> appeared, I started trying it.  Eventually a version appeared that
> installed effortlessly on my PC.  Since then I have more or less had at
> least one box that will run Linux.
>
> Part of my Linux desire was to give my three kids exposure to something
> different.  And my middle child, my 14-year-old Michael, has been the
> Ubuntu user for about a year now.
>
> I'm far from a power user.  But I sort of know enough to do my LAMP
> development as a junior programmer at age 45.
>
> I wish Ubuntu wouldn't fail.  It's really sad.  But they don't seem ready
> to acknowledge that Unity is plain hard to use.
>
> Tom
>


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