Mike, you make choose to be 'village idiot', it's your right. But your persistance handsomely makes up for whatever you think you lack. If I had half of your persistance, I would actully accomplish things. Hang in there pal, you're doing good... :) ET Michael Havens writes: > You all know me. I'm the self-proclaimed village idiot. I use linux 100% > on both of my computers. If the village idiot can do it amyone can. I run > Mint12 on my laptop and Ubuntu on the desktop. The only grief I've had with > this is when I first installed mint it would panic when I was running it > on the battery. Thanks to you guys' recommendation that `lil problem was > solved by upgrading the kernel. (I then tried upgrading to an even newer > kernel but it started to panic on battery again so I reset it to the > kernel I knew worked. > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > >> I watched the 2012 WLS one, and he's mostly right, but far over-dramatizes >> it I think. >> >> Linux definitely does not "suck" as a desktop, but if calling it that >> helps fix bits that do - sure. I use linux exclusively for home and work, >> which is generally no small feat, relegating windows to vm only. My wife as >> a non-sysadmin user runs linux natively as well, doing Minecraft, facebook >> games, gimp for graphics, openoffice, and general every day use. While it >> gives me grief at times, it also gives me far more potential than any >> windoze system would without installing linux in vm or cygwin on it. >> >> I thought my big desktop system had issues until I used a customer >> dual-head win7 system for a few days for systems access, and there were far >> more split desktop rendering issues than I would have expected for modern >> winos. I suddenly appreciated linux that much more with or without my >> compiz/ati issues. >> >> -mb >> >> >> >> On 07/05/2012 07:32 AM, AZ RUNE wrote: >> >>> Well same here, and for the pure spirited 'no its another skin of >>> Windows' try watching Jupiter Broadcasting Linux Sucks on Youtube where >>> they are addressing why Linux doesn't work in the desktop, laptop arena. >>> Made me re evaluate a few things and I am die hard linux fan living in a >>> mixed environment at work. >>> >>> Brian >>> >>> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss