Thanks, buddy! On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:07 PM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com < kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote: > 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.**phoe**nix.az.us >>> >>> > >>> >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.****us/mailman/listinfo/plug-****discuss< >>> 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 > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: