if 17.2 doesn't work try 17.1
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Parabellum7 wrote:
> "LinuxMint Cinnamon or LinuxMint Mate ... So my question is, which is
> better for a complete noob to linux? He really is only interested in
> LibreOffice, Chrome and maybe Firefox."
>
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
>
> If the
"LinuxMint Cinnamon or LinuxMint Mate ... So my question is, which is
better for a complete noob to linux? He really is only interested in
LibreOffice, Chrome and maybe Firefox."
Hi Nathan,
If the machine is higher-spec then either one should work well so it
would be mostly a matter of pref
Michael Havens
http://lists.phxlinux.org/lurker/message/20151029.223419.f8d4ef0a.en.html
> last year I put Linux Mint Debian Edition on my brother's xp computer and it
> ran beautifully
I like LMDE a lot, have been running it since it went public (~3 years ago? I
forget), and have tried to hel
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
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> 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
>> fine, if it's rea
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Joseph Sinclair
wrote:
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>
> My recommendation (lacking more information):
> Check the hardware, if it's reasonably recent then Mate or Cinnamon is
> fine, if it's really old or slow (older than 2010, or slower than a 2010
> AMD A4 APU), then something with LXDE (e
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 an
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 2015-10-29 13:10, Nathan Engla
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 K
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 W
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 will look at lxde.
On 2015-10-29 08:56, Steve Litt wrote:
On Thu
How is Ubuntu close enough to Windows? I mean KDE at least has a panel
with a task bar and such, but doesn't Ubuntu use Unity?
I've always been curious why so many throughout the recent past have
said that Gnome was closest to Windows when KDE has always been more
windows like.
Even today,
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
> when one has not had enough coff
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 is only interested
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
> what they want. Show them ho
+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 his hardware support
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 live cd's so he can try b
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 definitely where to start, but th
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
connec
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 (thinking
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