<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452185210324_72694" dir="ltr">I pretty much gave up on Linux as a desktop and use OS X as my primary operating system and run (Fedora) Linux out of vagrant and VirtualBox "headless" via ssh session(s). Back when I used desktop Linux (about 3-4 years ago I guess, now) I used Mint. Seems nice.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452185210324_72694" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452185210324_72694" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452185210324_72828">Mark</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, January 7, 2016 9:10 AM, Julian Brown via Houston <houston@pm.org> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8524252458"><div><div dir="ltr">I use Mint as well. Mint 17.3 came out recently should be what most people expect. Ubuntu with their UI is almost unusable for me.</div><div class="yiv8524252458yqt0537266530" id="yiv8524252458yqt10673"><div class="yiv8524252458gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv8524252458gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:24 AM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:houston@pm.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:houston@pm.org">houston@pm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv8524252458gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Good for you. I moved to Linux for my desktop years ago and have mostly<br clear="none">
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In recent years, I've been using Mint. It's basically a set of<br clear="none">
modifications on Ubuntu, which is a packaged version of Debian. I've<br clear="none">
been pretty happy with it.<br clear="none">
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You can mostly use any help that applies to Ubuntu on Mint problems.<br clear="none">
Any "Ubuntu-specific" packages work on Mint as well.<br clear="none">
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G. Wade<br clear="none">
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On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 06:37:01 -0600<br clear="none">
Mike Flannigan via Houston <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:houston@pm.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:houston@pm.org">houston@pm.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
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> I plan to buy a computer and install nothing but<br clear="none">
> Linux on it. I will use it for Perl processing of<br clear="none">
> text files, GIS (mapping), and simple things (e-mail,<br clear="none">
> browsing, FTP, etc). I want to be able to Remote<br clear="none">
> Desktop into Windows machines, and I want to be able<br clear="none">
> to remote into my new Linux machine from Windows.<br clear="none">
> Stability and speed are important, but not super<br clear="none">
> important. This will be one of about 4 computers<br clear="none">
> on a wired network. No servers to speak of.<br clear="none">
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> I value your opinion on which distro to select. I<br clear="none">
> am favoring Ubuntu or OpenSuse, but am open to any.<br clear="none">
> I have Ubuntu installed on one of my machines. I'm<br clear="none">
> not crazy about it, but I do like the wide selection<br clear="none">
> of software and easy installation of the software.<br clear="none">
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> Probably the most important thing to me is being able<br clear="none">
> to find/obtain support. I'm probably not going to pay<br clear="none">
> for the support, but that is an option too.<br clear="none">
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> If you would rather comment on what hardware to buy instead<br clear="none">
> of what distro to use, I welcome that info also. I will<br clear="none">
> probably buy a high dollar graphics card. Other than that I<br clear="none">
> will buy what the computer store (Fry's) tells me to buy.<br clear="none">
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> When I read things like this:<br clear="none">
> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/810295-the-top-11-best-linux-distros-for-2015/">https://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/810295-the-top-11-best-linux-distros-for-2015/</a><br clear="none">
> I tend towards OpenSuse.<br clear="none">
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> One word answers are welcome.<br clear="none">
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> Thank you.<br clear="none">
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> Mike<br clear="none">
> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="">281-286-6869</a><br clear="none">
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