On 14/09/13 15:11, Bob 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.
Welcome to the list: mostly harmless^h^h^h^generally a friendly and helpful lot.
I would have concurred unreservedly with your observations, but some Linux distros Windows-like, are beginning to bloat-up. Fortunately, it's not so difficult to shed any dead weight, and should a use present itself after you have done so, no problems putting it back.
I started Linux life with PClinuxOS which was very similar to Windows and it was exciting to use. The problems came in keeping it up to date and the general maintenance aspect. (with Windows an '*.exe' almost cured all) After I found Distrowatch, this opened up a whole new world. Ubuntu was the first OS that I used in earnest, but, Unity arrived. Good bye Ubuntu!
Mine was Linux FT,which was taken overby the SuSE people. I didn't like SuSE and since I know a Debian developer, guess what I chose to replace FT?
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.
Listmembers got mestarted on Mint, and i use it almost exclusively now.
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.
Is there one?
So, if I can give anything to the group I will, but I can't help feeling it will be the other way round.
My name is Bob Innes and I live Sproughton, Ipswich. Thank you for listening..er reading
Best wishes
Reciprocated. Well, you have all 'grades' here. Some of the butch ones wrestle Pythons...