Hello Jack, I have a somewhat dated version of Mint running on another box. I have tried many different flavors. RH, Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu Suse, among many others. I am pretty happy with Ubuntu. For all the rocks I could throw at any particular distribution, none have been perfect. Those that were close or emphasized security were pretty badly out of date when it came to the programs available and precompiled.
Pretty much the same can be said for the HP laptop I am running now. It has a few things I don't like, but those things are very minor. It is very stable, lots of storage (2TB), lots of memory (16GB) and has been pretty reliable, certainly better than any I have had before (after a long line of laptops). It is true the bloatware problem is there, but that seems to be a typical problem with almost every release I have seen. Dave On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 23:16 -0500, Jack Coats wrote: > The last big Ubuntu I went for was 10.04 ... I agree with Howard it > has been getting more fragile and more bloatware as time has gone on. > Currently I am on Mint on a T61 notebook. But it is close to getting > approval from SWMBO and move on. Before I do that I need to get > rid of some old boat anchors and I really want to get a solid NAS > working for me. Right now it is a bunch of USB drives on a > WinXP boxen. That too is getting long in the tooth. (Right now I > have 14T and it is getting to full for my liking, and no/minimal > redundancy). > Its biggest workload is running Plex as a media server (gotta keep > those TV reruns going). > > Not sure what distribution I will go to. Possibly Mint - possibly > Debian - or ??? > > Mint started being based to be a 'cleaner Ubuntu' built on an Ubuntu > core. They have switched to using Debian rather than Ubuntu > as their base, just to keep down the bloatware (and some other things > like development/update cycle issues, but that is not relevant to this > thread). > > Ok, back in my hole. ... ;-) > > -- -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
