From a new user perspective, mint (or others) may be better 
out-of-install, but a lack of features like install methods for 
raid/lvm/crypto functions just tell me its immature or a sub-grade 
knock-off.  I'm not an enterprise, just security aware and conscious of 
mtbf on drives to want/expect enterprise features (it *is* linux still), 
and more people should too (especially when mint uses ubuntu as a base 
already).

I'd rather just use ubuntu as the distro without unity on it as a base 
and get general industry support, especially for video driver blob 
support as it and fedora/cent are the standard vendors are willing to 
support.

I'd like to see what kind of experience mint users have with 
dist-upgrades as well.  Something tells me if canonical isn't catching 
the big things that break the os, Mint isn't going to either.

As for windoze-y linuxes, this odd distro is still going...  Remembered 
this from years ago that looked waaay too much like windoze if that's 
what you're looking for:

http://www.ylmf.org/en/index.html

It *is* based on 10.04 LTS, so at least you get some software support, 
and hopefully not just odd tcp socket connections back to chinese ip 
addresses.

-mb


On 07/05/2012 07:39 AM, Kenn wrote:
> I've been having pretty good results with Linux Mint Maya v13 using the
> MATE desktop for the last week or so now. I don't run the newest fastest
> hardware. I was a big Ubuntu fan for the longest time, but I just cannot
> warm up to the Unity desktop on a desktop PC, although it's OK on my
> netbook with a small screen. Gnome3 desktop wasn't working out for me
> either. The last straw was updating Ubuntu to 12.04 and it hosed up two
> machines. Sure, a fresh install likely would have worked, but I was due
> for a new desktop. Just my two cents.
>
> distrowatch.org is good reference for selecting a distro best for you.
>
>
> -Ken
>
>
>
> --- On *Thu, 7/5/12, Wayne Davis /<waydavis.phx.lists@gmail.com>/* wrote:
>
>
>
>     I'm looking for a distro that works well for people weaned off
>     Winblows. So far, school's out for this one, but i'm giving it a
>     chance for a while for it to grow on me so to speak.
>
>
>
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