Opinions on Zorin OS (and a side order of Mint)

[Michael Havens]

I out mint 13 on my computer yesterday and it immediately paniced after
entering my password. So I went back to mint 12. After upgrading the kernel
there are no issues with mint 12. And if I didn't need to run it off of
battery I wouldn't need to put the newer kernel in.

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Wayne Davis <waydavis.phx.lists at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
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> although Ylmf looked promising, my friend's machine, who this is all
> about, is nearly new hardware (1 yr)
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> On 07/05/2012 01:35 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
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>> 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).
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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:
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>> http://www.ylmf.org/en/index.**html <http://www.ylmf.org/en/index.html>
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>> 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.
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>> -mb
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>> On 07/05/2012 07:39 AM, Kenn wrote:
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>>> 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
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>>> --- On *Thu, 7/5/12, Wayne Davis /<waydavis.phx.lists at gmail.com**>/*
>>> wrote:
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>>>     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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