[Discuss] The next Linux desktop

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 02/10/2012 07:51 AM, Laura Conrad wrote:
>>>>>> "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.
>
My netbook (Acer Aspire One) has an Atom N450 running Fedora 16. There
is no problem with graphics on it.

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