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 //* >> 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. >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss