Posted on 11/24/2015 2:30:32 AM PST by markomalley
Clement Lefebvre publicly renounced his Israel policy several years ago. I think he realized politics was interfering with usage of his product. Before then I used Mint anyway - while I disagreed with him, I use whatever software works best, regardless of who created it.
“veterans tend to like ubuntu for some reason (i hate the ui)”
I don’t like the Unity UI, if that is what you are talking about. Ubuntu offers several other desktop packages besides Unity, such as KDE and Mate. I like Mate the best - it runs faster than Unity and it looks similar to Windows XP.
Due to my increasing distrust and disgust of everything and anything related to MS and Bill Gates, several months ago I decided to dump Win 7 on my laptop and desktop computers and installed Linux Mint 17.2 on both.
I used several Linux distro’s between the years of ‘95 to 2005, primarily debian but when my last Linux box died, I switched back to Windows as I tired of being a “hobbyist” and simply wanted my computers for general internet access and web browsing.
I especially like that package control is handled by apt. Opening a terminal window, su -, enter password then apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade ; apt-get clean, hit enter after the package list has been retrieved and your system is up to date. Yes, I know about the update manager, but it doesn’t remove the .DEB files after installation and I prefer that it does.
Whatever hardware recognition or configuration nightmares that existed in the past are gone and I can honestly say that installing Linux Mint was the easiest and most intuitive OS installation I’ve ever done. I can’t imagine how much more “ready out of the box” it could be.
I’m very pleased with my decision to give Linux another try and I can’t foresee ever going back to Windows or any other MS product. I believe Bill Gates to be an evil man and I don’t ever want to give him another penny.
I watched my son install Mint on the laptop here in less than 5 minutes.
The 17.something version of Mint responds much better than the last version of Ubuntu that was running.
Been using linux to surf the net for over a year now and finally feel like I’ve been deprogrammed from the cult of Windows.
Glad to hear he walked his hatred for Israel back.
I couldn’t find anything supporting such a boycott in the GPL.
Reports are he wrote a “semi-retraction.”
So I semi-agree with you.
If he or you have a full apology for his behavior (which is contrary to the GPL) then I will feel all fuzzy.
Otherwise, I keep awareness up. It is puzzling behavior on his part as Compulab is (or was) an Israeli company.
Forgive but not forget.
Ubuntu and DSL were my firsts.
Slackware is PC free (Political Correctness)?
I’m looking at it now.
No reason to support BLM style c#(p.
I still prefer Mint KDE... Never got around to liking Ubuntu :p
HA! Caught ya!
Linux uses forward slashes..../
Long time Fedora user - also typing this on Ubuntu (at this point in my life I have 4 count em 4 Linux boxen that I either own, user for work, or support).
Mostly things work but when they don’t I know how to get ‘em working again. Pretty much hate windoze (except when run as a VM) and don’t like the Mac cultists.
I betcha there was a Broadcomm chip involved in there somewhere.
I finally got Linux Mint 17.3 64 bit installed on my Lenovo. I had to shrink the Win7 partition and set it up for dual boot.
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