But before you jump to Ubuntu, Xubuntu or LinuxMint and make a decision
about which of the four desktop environments you want to use and after
you realize that Ubuntu had just been prostituted by its commercial
developer by quietly sending/selling your file search results to Amazon
and... well you ought to read this:
<http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html>
For those who don't want to bother reading the long list of frustrations
over Linux development it basically boils down to a bunch of prima donna
developers who consider *their* version of Linux their own personal
sandbox. Their are so many "forks" (different versions) of Linux
because the developers can make any changes they want in order to do it
right (in their eyes) and they don't care how much damage they leave
behind in apps and device drivers that no longer work.
As I was reading this I was thinking back to my early OS/2 development
experience with Microsoft. We had a system test case that was not
working for some reason. We were convinced our test code was correct so
the problem had to be in a particular interface whose development
belonged to Microsoft. When I tried to explain the problem to the
20-something developer he said: "Yeah, it doesn't work because I
changed the interface." You did what? What about the design
specification that says it's supposed to be such and so? "Oh, I didn't
like that so I changed it." But this specification has been published
to application developers. What are they going to do when their code
doesn't work any more. "Well, let them change their code".
Brilliant kids but so, so naive.
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/30/2013 11:35 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
>>
>> I am not sure about your hardware but I would suggest downloading and
>> installing virtualbox <https://www.virtualbox.org/> and then experiment
>> with different varieties of linux, one that is quite neat at the moment
>> is mint <http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php> its a bit confusing but
>> the one at the top i.e. the mate version in either 32 bit or 64bit is a
>> nice OS.
>>
>> Once you are happy it does what you want you can install it properly and
>> overwrite windows or depending upon disk space dual boot or even better
>> install to a fresh drive and put the old windows disk in an external
>> housing so that you can access any files.
>>
>
> I got a deluge of similar advice from members of another list, and I'm
> going to give Ubuntu, Xubuntu, and LinuxMint a try. The last one sounds best
> of all. Can't download any of them at the moment due to the severe weather
> across North America.
>
> Chris
>
>
> Chris
>
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