On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Bob bob@beriwold.plus.com 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.
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!
Gentleman & Ladies?
A member of the senior sex hasn't replied... ( you didn't mean to get it the wrong way round!).
I also liked PCLoS - one of the best packaged distros, only one using APT rpm and successfully it seems (fedora had apt repos for a while I believe but reverted to yum or yuck I think it is sometimes called). Before you say good bye to Ubuntu, have a look at Xubuntu and ubuntu-gnome when they come out next month.
james