Three reasons to hold off on Windows 10

[Terry N4TLF]

You are right of course.
I would probably lead Phil "into the weeds" with my personal biases by 
suggesting Mint Cinnamon over Unity.  Unity is just fine for the average 
person.  Until they want to do more than simple stuff.  Or use it two years 
later when the Ubuntu gods decide to alter the current distro yet again and 
break stuff.

He is happy, so I am as well.  You did good Rob.
73, Terry, N4TLF


-----Original Message----- 
From: Rob Seastrom
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 5:59 PM
To: Terry N4TLF
Cc: tacos at amrad.org ; fgentges at mindspring.com ; rs at seastrom.com
Subject: Re: Three reasons to hold off on Windows 10


"Terry N4TLF" <n4tlf at wb4jfi.com> writes:

> I agree on Mint.  I really don't like the Ubuntu Unity desktop
> anymore, with the icons only along the left edge.  Mint allows you to
> put the icons on the desktop like "normal".

I don't particularly care for Unity either, but as someone who may
have a longer track record than I do with Unix-flavored OSes (which is
unusual; it's since 1984 for me), you're solving an entirely different
problem than Phil is.

Getting some experience and being able to steer his own ship is more
important than optimization and customization.  I kind of feel like
getting down into the weeds on stuff he can't use straight out of the
box and religious wars on UI is like telling people with freshly
minted Tech or General licenses that they really need to go out and
get a Flex-6500, IC-7851, or FT-DX-5000MP in order to get on the air.

A suggestion of Ubuntu LTS was along the lines of the IC706MkII that I
lend out for Field Day (or run myself) - short on bells and whistles,
but lots of people can intelligently answer questions about it or
drive it themselves, even if they may grumble.

I have an ample set of complaints about current Ubuntu; they start
with systemd, not Unity...  but I won't bore people with them here,
nor will I let it get in the way of recommending Ubuntu when I think
it's the right tool for the job.

73 de ai4uc...

-r