On 29/06/16 00:34, David Rock wrote: > If you value Alan’s opinion
Just to be clear, I run mint because it works but I've used many distros in the past, starting with Slackware then Red Hat then Mandrake and Ubuntu with equally good results. I don't like Ubuntu's Unity UI so switched to Mint but it's a subjective rather than political/idealogical/technical decision. > I still say a dry run in a VM to get a feel for it would do wonders I totally agree. I regularly spin up new distros just to take a look (Vector, TinyLinux, Gentoo, CentOS, have all been on a VM near me :-) As for performance hit of a VM - I only really notice it on graphics intensive stuff. Let me put it another way: many commercial data centers now only run servers under VMs. The extra maintainability, security and safety outweighs the small performance hit. When you buy a "server" from a data center these days you are most likely buying a VM image running on a much bigger box. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor