[OT] ZFS on linux

[John Williamson]

If your computer can cope, anyway. Otherwise, unless there are new programs that won't run on your version, why bother?

[Huge]

Horrid user interface. I need to find something that's better than Unity - jabbing my eyes out with a spike, for example.

This.

Oh, believe me, I really don't want to do this.

[The Natural Philosopher]

+1

I keep thinking 'ooh mint 16 looks sexy' and then realising that probably its so sexy it will need a bigger CPU to drive it and that's going to cost money.. and really I have better things to do with my time.

What I WOULD like but see no hope of getting is 2x speed increase on internet UPLOADS.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Mint then, Mint 16 cinnamon. All the eye candy but traditional layout

Then dont :-)

[tony sayer]

No fibber out your way yet?..

[John Williamson]

Mint 16 starts faster and loads Firefox and Thunderbird quicker than XP on this here machine. TB also re-sorts news items faster under Mint.

That's an ISP problem.

[The Natural Philosopher]

ER no. Its a copper/distance problem.

[Bob Martin]

Mint. Based on Ubuntu but streets better.

[Huge]

There's a Mint CD sitting on my desk awaiting doing something with ...

[The Natural Philosopher]

+1

[Johny B Good]

+1 too but let's not lose sight of the fact that it's actually based upon the Ubuntu _'flavoured'_ version of Debian.

[The Natural Philosopher]

yes, debian maintain the kernel and basics, Ubuntu add some rather handy collections of packages that are more user oriented and Mint built the user interface, tools and the installation, which together with a good support forum are why 'mint' and not 'ubuntu'

What I like about Mint is they don't try to fix what works - just what didn't. User interface, user tools (especially noob level user tools) installation for noobs, and support.

the package system from debian is more than good enough if given an easy user interface.

Mate an cinnamon are nice balances between eye candy, configurabilty flexibility and usability.

In particular the main thing is that the default desktop environment works straight away, and is remarkably XP like in where things are and how things are done, but you are not constrained to use it that way: other options exist so you CAN but don't HAVE to, remodel the 'desktop experience' in different directions if you are a real power user who spends a lot of time doing particular things.

Every 6 months or so I get irritated by some feature or other and spend a day trying different ways..sometimes I keep them, sometimes I dont.

But I never get as irritated as with XP ;-)

[Mark]

You can always ditch Unity on Ubuntu. I just went back to Gnome.

[Tim Watts]

XFCE...