Opinions on Zorin OS

[Michael Havens]

Thanks, buddy!

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:07 PM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
kitepilot at 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 <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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