jerome1232 Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 It's more than that. Cannonical is trying to trim down and become a profitable company. They are making money in the cloud, and by not developing their own desktop environment and going with upstream gnome-shell they can focus on what makes them money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still_Small_Voice Posted July 25, 2017 Report Share Posted July 25, 2017 I figure I would bring back this thread seeing it is not too old. Windows 10 inspired me to begin using Linux Mint 17 64-bit. I only use Windows 7 pretty much now to play video games. Linux Mint 17 works great for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweety D Posted July 26, 2017 Report Share Posted July 26, 2017 On 4/10/2017 at 11:13 AM, Mike said: If anyone uses (not as a developer) Linux Ubuntu, Mint, or other distributions I'm interested in first-hand testimonials. I use unix and linux products everyday. But I work and live in the technical (mostly software) world. For everyday use, I stick with unix based OS. By far the easiest and best UI. I also use Ubuntu, but I don't recommend that to a novice user. If you are familiar with KDE and terminal commands, you'll love it. So I guess I would ask, what's your use case? What are you trying to do? Just sick of Windows? For what it's worth, I avoid microsoft products like the plague. Though I'm always using the when I deploy VM's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueskye2 Posted July 26, 2017 Report Share Posted July 26, 2017 On 4/10/2017 at 0:13 PM, Mike said: If anyone uses (not as a developer) Linux Ubuntu, Mint, or other distributions I'm interested in first-hand testimonials. Sounds like you're asking about a personal desktop environment. I've ran Ubuntu for 10+ years in enterprise server environments, almost all of the instances were apache servers (LAMP). Some with very heavy traffic. No problems, and I really like ubuntu. Hardware matters (seriously). And Ubuntu is super configurable, which is very useful if you know what you're doing. Will get you in trouble if you don't. I recommend having an understanding of computing concepts and what each configuration change is actually doing. For this reason, I never recommend Linux as a home desktop for anyone who just needs to load-and-go. Keep it patched is the main mantra. Some of the super bad security issues out there target Linux distros. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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