From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RPA1s-0004qr-UT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:37:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB4F521C0B0; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:37:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com (mail-ww0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8188A21C02F for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:36:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf25 with SMTP id 25so2934042wwf.4 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:36:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=M3/1Y/IVxbMN434plD+xgTngjh0AErapGtb12OqXZjw=; b=dMfJdlAqiDal/3wx2z4kjVfca6HuZXjaGXKnwHTPzXUmWoNrBaTLWC5xJ9/gQl+LN7 rEVl3l+k03wjRXhv6O/EucL0zqNL86bI0Mw9GYapMc10MJLV8pnmi5DT8EJyK0v3HmdG TeEdqzy0x2ZjZmqnlpS+CVbVLMkJgaLIu/TTQ= Received: by 10.216.230.170 with SMTP id j42mr290weq.95.1321090593531; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:36:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a27sm16708242wbp.16.2011.11.12.01.36.31 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:36:32 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:36:18 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.0.6-gentoo; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <4EBC1707.5030103@gmail.com> <20111111234731.452e9d84@rohan.example.com> <20111112004231.190f43fa@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20111112004231.190f43fa@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart27529349.0TYVQnFx7T"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201111120936.34229.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9ec642ef-57aa-4ee5-974d-18adc8b3f294 X-Archives-Hash: b06b98d09ea3c33ee7ed7326b9bc525a --nextPart27529349.0TYVQnFx7T Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 00:42:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:47:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > If my ftp server stats are anything to go by, Linux Mint is the one > > power users are targeting right now. Number of downloads is a > > significant % of number of Ubuntu downloads. >=20 > How much of that is a knee-jerk reaction to Unity, Mint being seen as > "Ubuntu without the new-fangled stuff we don't want to try to understand". After 5 minutes on my nieces' PC with a new Ubuntu Unity installation I had= to=20 switch off the machine and remove myself from the room until I calmed down.= =20 The swearing was too much for the family to bear! ;-) That said, the nieces seem completely at home with Unity and they like it m= ore=20 than the classic Ubuntu Gnome GUI. Tut, tut! Kids! I guess they will als= o=20 like the MSWindows 8 GUI next. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart27529349.0TYVQnFx7T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk6+PiEACgkQVTDTR3kpaLY0CgCeOahIB9q2brNi8oO9GtvA1LlX cI0AoINdAbe8VHptwZqY1N4oO6RevLub =TiHd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart27529349.0TYVQnFx7T--