[Discuss] The next Linux desktop

[lconrad at laymusic.org (Laura Conrad)]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Metro <tmetro-blu at vl.com> writes:

    Tom> [The first of a series of posts on Linux desktops.]

    Tom> We've discussed the idea of using Mint as an alternative to
    Tom> Ubuntu here before, but how many of you have actually done
    Tom> that?

I've used Ubuntu for a decade or so on my desktop, but about a year ago,
I was having terrible problems running it on the laptop (an old
Thinkpad), because of power management and graphics issues.

So the laptop is now running Mint.  There's a wierd problem with Flash
in chromium, and there was a problem with sound being quite noisy, which
got fixed by updating everything.  So on the whole, I'm pretty happy.
It certainly doesn't hang when I close the lid or run a screensaver the
way Ubuntu 10.04LTS did.  

I would like to say that the netbook (an Acer Aspire One) is also
running Linux Mint, but the graphical install failed because the screen
was too small, and I haven't gotten around to doing anything different,
so it runs Windows when I use it at all.

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