Opinions on Zorin OS

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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 <michael at 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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