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 1RPKSC-0000Wt-5o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:45:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E035021C077; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:45:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92BC621C05B for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:44:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf27 with SMTP id 27so2111571wwf.10 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:44:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dzqRSBmU69Fc5QxaTLz8v/wynIZjOq359fbFtp5rdTc=; b=tDkY5SeU+l3W+7dhlhFrA8daXZY7byPgk37/FUmD7XysGy0tT4cuAgJKAn1Px69Rce /YcBi7JcrIubO5MNxFafLQYHBBDxzZLZgROE7IU0rYNv7xSrRMVjC1LIx4eOeIqmlMg+ uVfxiRGFe/l2/c3F2+lRLc2nim4i5MSAnFq4o= Received: by 10.227.60.131 with SMTP id p3mr11709059wbh.4.1321130663761; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:44:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from rohan.example.com ([196.215.144.97]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a27sm18508826wbp.16.2011.11.12.12.44.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:44:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:44:08 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro Message-ID: <20111112224408.4e61759f@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20111112004231.190f43fa@digimed.co.uk> References: <4EBC1707.5030103@gmail.com> <4EBC1FFD.3040403@gmail.com> <626edce95a8b1dd0834cae8599ab9825.squirrel@www.antarean.org> <201111111921.04929.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20111111234731.452e9d84@rohan.example.com> <20111112004231.190f43fa@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f133e0a4-f0d5-486d-b52b-28c8f621642b X-Archives-Hash: db14a85d7bc53104edbe408eadc685a8 On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:42:31 +0000 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. > > 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