Loaded Mint 13 Maya on a drive last night. Looks A LOT like Zorin.
Going to play with mint & Zorin for a bit. They both look promising for
a winbabes.
although Ylmf looked promising, my friend's machine, who this is all
about, is nearly new hardware (1 yr)
On 07/05/2012 01:35 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
> 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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