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 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 >> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- > 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 > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: