Re: LinuxMint Question

regarding mate/cinnamon: will his hardware support cinnamon? if there is any doubt I would put mate on his system so it dos not leave a bad taste in his mouth for linux. On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > Dont forget that there are options for

Re: LinuxMint Question

Dont forget that there are options for live cd's so he can try both and see which he likes the most. On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Phil Waclawski wrote: > Well, if he's never used Linux before, one of the desktop friendly distros > (Mint, Ubuntu, Kubuntu) is

Re: LinuxMint Question

Yeah, but I wouldn't let him within a mile of Unity. SteveT On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 07:36:46 -0700 Mark Phillips wrote: > +1 for Ubuntu. Close enough to Windows that the learning curve is low. > Enforces sudo from the command line, so harder to make fatal mistakes >

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+1 for Ubuntu. Close enough to Windows that the learning curve is low. Enforces sudo from the command line, so harder to make fatal mistakes when one has not had enough coffee;) Mark On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > regarding mate/cinnamon: will

Re: LinuxMint Question

On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 00:22:02 -0700 Nathan England wrote: > > My Pastor told me tonight he's had enough of Windows and wants to go > to Linux. [snip] > LinuxMint Cinnamon or LinuxMint Mate [snip] > So my question is, which is better for a complete noob to linux? > He really

Re: LinuxMint Question

On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 00:41:45 -0700 Phil Waclawski wrote: > Well, if he's never used Linux before, one of the desktop friendly > distros (Mint, Ubuntu, Kubuntu) is definitely where to start, but the > big help would be someone helping with the initial setup. Find out >

Re: cheap ISP for low-bandwidth use?

What about security in a situation like this? On 2015-10-28 21:17, Ted Gould wrote: On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 23:14 -0700, Michael Butash wrote: Wonder why they turned off analog channels? Besides, who really uses 1gbe speeds aside from a service provider or having 10 kids all using netflix at

Re: cheap ISP for low-bandwidth use?

Personally speaking I encrypt everything that is sensitive that goes on my NAS. Backups stuff like that. But then photos for instance aren't encrypted. I'd do the same in a cloud based scenario. For me the big reason on the NAS is that if my house was robbed, they'd probably take it. And I'm

Re: LinuxMint Question

I run mint-mate and I hear about people who lose input devices and such. I have never had a problem with mint where I lose devices after an update. Mint-mate has been rock-solid for as long as I can remember. On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > On

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On 2015-10-29 13:10, Nathan England wrote: I appreciate your input. I go back and forth between xfce and kde because I personally really really love the glitchy pig, but sometimes I need to get work done more than mess with windows resizing and screens blacking out. I've been using Gentoo and

Re: LinuxMint Question

Nathan England http://lists.phxlinux.org/lurker/message/20151029.072202.d35d5bf9.en.html >> My Pastor told me tonight he's had enough of Windows and wants to go to >> Linux[, which leaves me] with a hard question... LinuxMint Cinnamon or >> LinuxMint Mate[?] Shouldn't your question be, "What

Re: LinuxMint Question

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Joseph Sinclair < > plug-discuss...@stcaz.net> wrote: >> >> >> My recommendation (lacking more information): >> Check the hardware, if it's reasonably recent then Mate or Cinnamon is

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1) What is the end user coming from? Windows UI has changed extremely dramatically in the last couple releases. 2) What's the hardware? I have Mint/Mate running very fast on a 2010 AMD A8 quad core APU, anything equal to or faster than that (with at least 4G RAM) should work beautifully for

LinuxMint Question

My Pastor told me tonight he's had enough of Windows and wants to go to Linux. I was impressed he even knew it existed, but that's beside the point. It left me with a hard question... LinuxMint Cinnamon or LinuxMint Mate First impressions I like that Mate shows program descriptions

Re: cheap ISP for low-bandwidth use?

Brian Cluff http://lists.phxlinux.org/lurker/message/20151029.051147.3df0bb14.en.html > you are mixing your acronyms. You said that they promoted 10 MB down and 2 MB > up. Doh! I stand corrected. Michael Butash http://lists.phxlinux.org/lurker/message/20151028.061401.686176e5.en.html >>> who

Re: LinuxMint Question

Well, if he's never used Linux before, one of the desktop friendly distros (Mint, Ubuntu, Kubuntu) is definitely where to start, but the big help would be someone helping with the initial setup. Find out what they want. Show them how to find and install software, how to set up basic internet