[kwlug-disc] Sault Ste Marie Linux?

[Stuart Seeley]

I've suffered through a lot of broken distributions over the past 20 odd
years...  and I have to say I'm really impressed with Mint 18.2.
For me, it truly is the first time I completed the installation and almost
nothing was broken...

Side note:As someone who has to work with Windows everyday, I really
appreciate their choice to adopt a lot of the basic window management
keyboard shortcuts/etc.
This really takes away a lot of the cognitive 'switching desktops' friction
out for me...

Stuart

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 10:18 AM, Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Agreed -- back in November 2016 when I decided to try this Linux thing my
> only visibility into Linux was a Live Ubuntu 10.04 cd that I booted, stared
> uncomprehendingly at for a few minutes and went back to my Windows XP. That
> was 8 years ago.  Flash forward to late 2016 where I tossed distro after
> distro, at least 40 onto 3 low-cost laptops to see which one(s) fitted my
> sensibilities. It was a HUGE learning opportunity for me, not just from a
> for and fit standpoint, but something of the innards of the Linux
> communities online.
>
> I settled on Mint 18.2 where *nothing* is broken and OpenSUSE 42.3.
>
> Not sure if it's me and my very limited knowledge, but I have a number of
> frustrations with anything based off Ubuntu 18.04, seems like the early
> point releases of Debian 9-based distros and distros built on Ubuntu
> 16.04.1/.2/.3 have fared well for me. Fedora made me cry,  too many
> barriers to entry for me,
>
> So, as a 22-monto noob, I would highly recommended Mint 18.2 preferably
> with Xfce. Cinnamon is quite appealing too and would be an excellent
> desktop if he has a laptop/desktop from a recent vintage.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron Singh
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:53 PM, William Park via kwlug-disc <
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>
>> I think the best way to start learning Ubuntu (and Linux) is by using
>> it.  Pick a task he would do in Windows, and try doing that in Linux.
>> --
>> William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:01:32PM -0400, Daniel Allen wrote:
>> > Hi folks. I have a friend who is moving to Sault Ste Marie (to start at
>> > Algoma) in a few weeks. He's also just now deciding he'd like to switch
>> > from Windows to Ubuntu. There doesn't seem to be any LUG in the Sault.
>> But
>> > does anybody happen to know any LUG-type people up there?
>> > I'm not sure what to advise him about starting with Ubuntu- he might be
>> > able to get himself up and running ubuntu himself, but it'd be easier
>> with
>> > some community...
>> > Thanks for any contacts I can pass along.
>> > -Daniel
>>
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