Posted on 07/29/2012 2:19:06 PM PDT by ShadowAce
Tried, liked and used Ubuntu Fiesty (7.04) but found myself increasingly dissatisfied with succeeding versions. Finally, the 12.04 upgrade did me a favor by breaking my installation.
I switched to Mint 13 MATE (polished Gnome 2) and I’m loving it. I’ve gone from using Linux for a couple of days every six months (to fix stuff broken by the semi-annual Ubuntu upgrade) to pretty much full-time use.
Will 2013 be the “year of the Linux desktop?” Nope. But if Microsoft doesn’t come out with a quite radical service pack for Windows 8 P.D.Q. I can see Linux getting to 10% of a static/declining market in a couple of years.
Puppy.
“btw... is there a free unzip software for Vista?”
7zip. Practically the best free software ever. In ANY category!
Fedora user here as well - aside from having used it going all the way back to FC2, I live in the Raleigh NC area where Red Hat also makes its home. Seems only fitting to use Fedora.
I think for new entrants it’s likely that Ubuntu or one of its variants would make more sense as I think that its selling point is its ease of use and ease of getting started.
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