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 <michael@butash.net> 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

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