Ubuntu
I've been an Ubuntu junkie since 9.04 and have religiously tried every new version to come out. Recently due to the fact I can't warm up to Unity or the alternates, Cinnamon or Mate I've gone back to 10.04. I must say that 10.04.4 has to be the best version of Ubuntu out there. Its quick to boot, does everything I want done. Using Wine It runs AutoCad 2000 better than AutoCad ran using windblows XP. I'm curious as to what others think of this version of Ubuntu.
After its no longer supported coming this April I wonder if I'll be able to continue to upgrade firefox and thunderbird as new versions of those come out. If I will then I suspect I'll go to my grave using version 10.04.4 without a doubt.
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I gave cinnamon with ubuntu 12.04 a try but I didn't like it either so I went back to 10.04. I'm surprised at how fast 10.04 boots. I remember when they were building it they were trying to get a 20 second boot time and I'm not sure but if it doesn't boot in 20 seconds its not much longer than that.
I'm hoping that the powers to be will pull their collective heads out of their behinds concerning Unity sometime in the near future.
My neighbor has mint with Cinnamon and he loves it but for some reason it doesn't seem to work as fluid with Ubuntu as it does with mint. If Mint would get rid of that gawd awful green theme for the icons and such I'd switch to mint and be happy with it but I can't warm up to the green they use. Green is my favorite color but not the green they use.
I'm mighty picky for someone who is using a freebie, eh 
Between you and I I think I can live without the security updates for a while when 10.04 is no longer supported. At least long enough to hope that they give us an option between unity and gnome3. Mate shows some real promise but its not quite ready for the big time yet, still work to be done on it. 
my system now so it's hard for me to tell I'm not running Ubuntu 10.04. It also has the long-term support, I think until 2016??? Now with release 13 it seems you can change those green icons. I left them, they seem to be growing on me! I also figured out how to get the up/down arrows back on the scroll bar for Firefox and Thunderbird.
I have some parts on order for the main system here then next week I'm switching over to cinnamon 13 permanently (I think).
Anyway, just wanted to give you a progress report on how it's going here so far!
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When I was playing with Mate on Ubuntu 12.04 I had it looking like 10.04 pretty much but there were some issues, can't remember exactly what at the moment but anyway thanks for the progress report. For the most part I've liked the default programs that come with Mint better than Ubuntu so when they let me change the icon colors I'll probably be a Mint user. Is this release 13 you're referring to Mint or Cinnamon?
Yesterday and last night I downloaded Xubuntu and Kubuntu and I really liked Xubuntu as I could see with some work I could get it looking like my fav, Gnome2. Kubuntu not so much.
kinda' off topic but I'm amazed at the toughness of this 11 year old computer as I've removed and installed Operating Systems at least a couple hundred times, many times back when I was still using XP and using Nlite to change it, then when RoyBGiv got me interested in Linux I've had so many different installs and configurations that I can't count and it just keeps on coming back for more. I think a lot of it is due to the ease with which Linux installs that has contributed to that plus technical advances made in hardware. I remember my first computer back in '89 when the biggest hard drive I could get was a big format 20 mb and I went through a couple of them as they were sensitive to say the least, had to park the read/write heads before shutdown etc it you wanted to protect the disc and heads. Comparing to the days of DOS 3.1 and giant floppy drives, what a world of difference 23 years has made.
As I trek off to the store this morning I think I'll download Ubuntu 12.04.1 and see how Mate and Cinnamon works with it
I love Linux and can't imagine ever going back to a windows machine for any reason. I truly believe that having a computer has helped me to maintain my sanity all these years.
Peace
Where is Roy now? I sure miss him.
