On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > That whole project was a bit of an eyebrow-raiser for me. > > > > First, whyyyyyyy? > > > > Second, their funding campaign was ridiculous, from the goal to the > > rewards to everything. > > > > Third, their specs were meh at best and their justification for them was > > ridiculous ("Nobody wants really good specs anyway.") > > > > It's just another one of those things that makes me really think I should > > switch away from Ubuntu before it's too late. > > A couple of years ago I put Ubuntu on two laptops. I didn't like > some of the defaults so I put Fedora on one of the laptops. I really > should put something else on the other one too. > > Really not trying to start a distro war (a.k.a. religious war) but here is what I did. Many years ago I started on RH 5.2 then 6 and then somewhere it was Fedora Core and later it became Fedora. Well - - - I switched away when I couldn't update because the repository address had changed. (Today that wouldn't be a biggie but then I hadn't yet learned how to do that.) Well what I got tired of was needing to change the system so often. I tried Debian (had a mentor in a LUG though) and liked the idea of working for a long time without having keep changing things. Still there although now I use testing rather than stable for my base systems. I have been running Ubuntu because my wife likes more eye candy stuff and can say that Ubuntu really doesn't allow me to set things up the way I want them. I have to be and old fogey but I can still remember the slogan "computing for you - - just the way you want - - - microcomputers" - - - - rather than the mainframe systems where you had to do things the way the IT department wanted it. Well the IT department now runs all the micros and they still haven't figured out how to do things the way I would like them (they prefer change for changes sake along with eye candy and plenty of other bumpf) but I'm still working on running things my way. Working on learning more calculus so that I can use the 3 GPU cards I have in my box for Monte Carlo analysis and that's looking like it will be a lot of interesting when I manage to get there. So much to do and so little time to do it in! Dee > -- > Brian > Ebenezer Enterprises - In G-d we trust. > http://webEbenezer.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150412/741a8493/attachment.html>