Linux Mint 17.2

[Chris Daly]

Anyone else enjoying Linux mint 17.2

The things I like are its fast, friendly, and taps into the wonderful
world of free software.

 

[mlloyd1]

I put it on an old machine i cobbled together to have something to play with Linux and was pleasantly surprised; I like it.

I put the machine together with the idea of using it as/for/with test equipment.

mlloyd1

 

[FellCrustacean8]

Im using Ubuntu 15.04 sorry and this is an audio forum site not pc forum 😛

 

[billshurv]

Given this is the lounge why p****ng on the parade?

 

[Michael Bean]

Anyone else enjoying Linux mint 17.2

The things I like are its fast, friendly, and taps into the wonderful
world of free software.

Which desktop environment are you using?

Mike

 

[cogitech]

My wife and daughters are all running Mint 17 with the Mate desktop (err, one daughter might be running Cinnamon) . They all love it and my annual support hours are virtually zero! Now I just need to convince my father to abandon Windows and I will regain my sanity. 😀

I still have an old version of Ubuntu (12.04?) on my main workstation, running Gnome desktop (HATE "Unity"!). Been too lazy to upgrade it, and ....it's Linux, so it just works.

My NAS is Debian with OpenMediaVault installed. My music server is Mint 17. My web/mail/etc. server is FreeBSD 9.3.

 

[Chris Daly]

Which desktop environment are you using?

Mike

Hi Mike
I am using Cinnamon, also like Xfce which I use on a
small laptop.

Cheers / Chris

 

[volume knob]

I like lubuntu for slower machines and with wine installed I can run all my old windows software that won't work properly on my windows 7 machine under compatibility mode

 

[Michael Bean]

Hi Mike
I am using Cinnamon, also like Xfce which I use on a
small laptop.

Cheers / Chris

Thanks Chris, I just finished downloading that one. I haven't played with Linux for a few years, I hope this one is more user friendly than the last one I tried. I'm really fed up with windoze, I'm exceptionally unimpressed with win10, it's just more of the same old Micro$oft bloatware. Thanks.

Mike

 

[Chris Daly]

Hi Mike
The install process is on most machines about 15 minutes.
If you want to use other risky operating systems - not that you should have to
there is nice software called virtual box where if you have original
discs you can run it, .

For us Electronics people there is some software to help
in Linux like oregano, but things like LT spice can run
in Wine available free in software manager.
it is just a matter of turning off the other for good
because it is not needed as I found out in 2003.

Glad you are enjoying, its so nice to use.

Cheers / Chris

 

[PeteMcK]

Installed it (easily) on an old machine a few weeks ago, but still use XP because I haven't found software to run my TV stick (haven't looked, really)....
If I could find that, & a prog that would download the photos from my Nikon, XP would get the boot