On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Ron Blizzard <rb4centos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Odd you should mention it - a friend on a techie mailing list just tried
>> to set up dual-boot XP w/ ubuntu, and had all *kinds* of grief, dunno if
>> she just restored XP. Wouldn't recognize her USB keyboard, didn't get the
>> graphics card and monitor right (which does surprise me), and she had fun
>> trying to find in which submenu the X settings were (applications, not
>> system!).
>
> My brother called this weekend. He's a Windows programmer who has
> recently started experimenting with Linux. Ubuntu, specifically. He
> upgraded and then his ATI video card quit working correctly. He
> finally found the solution, but he searched all day (I was no help to
> him). I have one partition set up with Linux Mint 10 (because my Dad
> uses Linux Mint and I want to be able to support him over the phone).
> Every time I boot up, Nautilus and Gnome-Panel don't come up. (I have
> to go to a terminal and type "pkill nautilus" and "pkill gnome-panel"
> to get them to work.) So, although Mint is "pretty" and uses modern
> packages, it's not rock solid like CentOS.
I wouldn't generalize based on your experience because Mint hasn't
become a very popular distribution by being broken. Same goes for
Ubuntu.
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