Oren
Wed, 05 Apr 2017
19:07:19 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 20:44:50 -0600, rbowman
wrote:

On 04/04/2017 11:21 AM, Frank wrote:
Got no real Linux experience but when my Vista computer went
south a few years ago my son could not fix it with even a wipe
and Vista reinstall but got it working with Linux. This was on
his either net at his home but we could not get the wifi hooked
up to in my home. I need to know computers for my consulting
work but don't want to spend all my time working on computers.
Bad enough dealing with software problems that have to be worked
on.

I'm not trying to sell Linux but it has gotten a lot better. The
curve worked out well for me. Linux got to the point where you
didn't have to screw around with it about the same time that I got
thoroughly sick of screwing around with Linux.


I tried Red Hat maybe 20 years ago. It lasted a few days until I
blew it off the drive. I'm not interested in learning a new
vocabulary glossary. Tood has pointed to Fedora & its GUI a few
times here. Perhaps things are better. Aw. Can't be true :-)

If you're basing your opinion on Linux from a distro 20 years ago,
things have improved considerbly! I've downloaded the lastest Fedora
ISO to play with, when I have the time. But, I doubt I'll switch
over, unless Linux Mint 18 as it matures doesn't do what I want it to
do. for starters, theres no full codec already available version to
download; they have to be installed afterwards, online. That's a bit
of a turn off, and I'm hoping they go back to the way 17.3 is with
that; you had the choice to download an iso without them or one with
them.



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