On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:11:47 +0100 Bob bob@beriwold.plus.com allegedly wrote:
Gentlemen & Ladies
I decided to join your 'club' as over the past 10 years or so the MS attitude that they have the right etc etc. Much prefer the better and free path that is Linux.
Bob
Hello and welcome. The natives are (largely) friendly.
There is an Ipswich based contingent who meet locally to you. I'm sure one or more will point you in the right direction.
That's when I found Linux Mint 11 and I am now on Olivia. My favourite desktop is Mate. I do most of the PC maintenance for my friends and as I am now retired, I'm slowly converting them all to use Mint.
Presumably you /do/ first ask their permission before nuking their windows installation? :-) (Sorry, I had this momentary vision of you visiting friends and zealously trashing their PC setup)
I do not however, have the skills to dig into the OS and my latest project has been to try to get the scanners on the all-in-one printers to function. And of course, the dreaded Skype problem.
Just don't use skype. Seriously.
So, if I can give anything to the group I will, but I can't help feeling it will be the other way round.
Everybody contributes in some way.
Best
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