On 18 July 2015 at 20:25, James E Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What > operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at > work? What factors influence the choice?
At work (network admin), I am stuck with a Micro$oft Windows environment. My work machine is Win7. (For those comfortable with Win7, switching to Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop is *much* easier than 'upgrading' to Win8.x) At home, I use Linux: Ubuntu for my wife (because the nag about system updates s in your face and can't be ignored) and Mint for me (because after working long days [18 hrs yesterday] I *don't* want to have to mess with my PC; I just want it to work). If money were no object, I might consider switching to a Mac, but all my home PCs are self-built because I want to get what I want without paying a premium. My main system is quad-core i7 @ 4.00GHz with 16 GiB RAM. Answer to person asking what BSOD meant: Blue Screen of Death. (Once, in the middle of an 11 hour phone conversation with a Micro$oft tech, I made a reference to a BSOD. He replied indignantly, 'We don't refer to it by that name!' I replied: 'You know what i mean since that is the industry standard terminology.' He didn't reply to that.) A web search on 'bsod' can quickly identify the meaning. -- T. R. Valentine A rich heart may be under a poor coat. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
