From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:44:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111112224408.4e61759f@rohan.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111112004231.190f43fa@digimed.co.uk>
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:42:31 +0000
Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> 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.
>
> 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".
If the contents of my inbox are anything to go by, then the answer is
"quite a lot".
The common thread lately is that people using Mint do not want to
change just because for no good reason. Can't argue with that - gnome2
ain't broke so gnome3 isn't the fix. The solution is a fork.
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
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Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-10 18:25 [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro Dale
2011-11-10 18:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-10 19:03 ` Dale
2011-11-11 7:37 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-11-11 19:20 ` Mick
2011-11-11 20:14 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-11 20:25 ` Dale
2011-11-11 21:09 ` Florian Philipp
2011-11-11 23:28 ` Dale
2011-11-11 23:51 ` Florian Philipp
2011-11-12 0:16 ` Dale
2011-11-15 19:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Steven J Long
2011-11-15 20:19 ` Dale
2011-11-15 22:19 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-16 1:08 ` Dale
2011-11-16 0:54 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-16 1:04 ` Dale
2011-11-16 1:08 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-16 1:23 ` Dale
2011-11-16 3:45 ` Érico Porto
2011-11-16 5:03 ` Dale
2011-11-16 10:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-16 10:19 ` Dale
2011-11-16 10:57 ` Lars Madson
2011-11-11 21:47 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2011-11-12 0:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-12 9:36 ` Mick
2011-11-12 20:44 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-11-12 20:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-10 19:40 ` Florian Philipp
2011-11-10 20:04 ` Lorenzo Bandieri
2011-11-10 20:17 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-11-11 14:54 ` Dale
2011-11-11 15:17 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-11 15:41 ` Dale
2011-11-11 15:53 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-11 16:49 ` Lorenzo Bandieri
2011-11-11 17:00 ` Dale
2011-11-11 19:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-11 20:10 ` Lorenzo Bandieri
2011-11-11 21:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-12 0:30 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-12 2:54 ` Dale
2011-11-11 20:19 ` Dale
2011-11-11 21:27 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-11 23:36 ` Dale
2011-11-12 0:04 ` Florian Philipp
2011-11-13 3:28 ` Dale
2011-11-12 0:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-12 0:45 ` Florian Philipp
2011-11-12 1:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-12 8:11 ` Florian Philipp
2011-11-12 2:57 ` Dale
2011-11-11 22:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-11-11 23:24 ` Mick
2011-11-11 23:40 ` Dale
2011-11-12 0:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-12 3:05 ` Dale
2011-11-12 3:24 ` James Wall
2011-11-12 10:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-10 22:13 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2011-11-10 22:15 ` Paul Hartman
2011-11-10 22:29 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-11 9:54 ` James Wall
2011-11-11 11:41 ` [gentoo-user] " masterprometheus
2011-11-13 0:58 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2011-11-13 2:22 ` Érico Porto
2011-11-13 2:30 ` Dale
2011-11-13 10:45 ` Lorenzo Bandieri
2011-11-13 16:50 ` Dale
2011-11-13 18:26 ` Mick
2011-11-13 19:28 ` Florian Philipp
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