I figure there are some linux fans here, so hopefully someone has a
suggestion.
My 70+ year old dad has a very old laptop that's still running XP. It's
not worth paying money to update, but he still wants to use it. I figure
linux was the way to go normally would go right to Ubuntu. But I
: Paul Griswold [pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com]
Sent: 01 April 2014 08:54 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: OT: good simple linux distro for laptop?
I figure there are some linux fans here, so hopefully someone has a suggestion.
My 70+ year old dad has a very old laptop
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Sent: 01 April 2014 08:54 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: OT: good simple linux distro for laptop?
I figure there are some linux fans here, so hopefully someone has a
suggestion.
My 70+ year old dad has a very old laptop that's still running XP.
It's not worth paying money
and by 'this Island' i mean Zakynthos.
apologies to the non-psychics out there ;)
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Jon Swindells
jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014, at 10:09 PM, Jon Swindells wrote:
I have a good portion of this islands retired population on mint15/16
(most from xp). once people get over
Thanks! I've been reading more about Mint it might do the trick here.
The laptop is a Dell Vostro running a Core 2 Duo (not sure the speed). As
long as it'll run Chrome he can listen to his 1950's streaming radio
station, I think he'll be in good shape.
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On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Jon
mint /thread.
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Paul Griswold
pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote:
I figure there are some linux fans here, so hopefully someone has a
suggestion.
My 70+ year old dad has a very old laptop that's still running XP. It's
not worth paying money to
Mint is like Ubuntu with a lot of the suck removed, and, IME, better media
handling out of the box by far.
It's worth at least considering, and it can definitely be made a lot less
twitchy and resource hungry than Ubuntu straight out of the install.
If you're ok with Deb based distros (and if
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