Hmmn

Under important info: Boot hangs on systems with b43 wireless cards.
Guess it won't be going on my laptop anytime soon..

Well I did try Unity from day 1 and it never really worked for me. Maybe it was my computer or whatever so I switched to Linuxmint 11 and now running Mint 12 with the Cinnamon 1.4 desktop. Mint 12 with Cinnamon rules for me at least. Even with all the negativity about Unity, you would think Mr Shuttleworth would drop it ?? Oh no, there starts the fall of a great distro ...
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Wow talk about reminiscing. I used Compuserve and migrated to IRC all on an old box running Win95. I picked up Linux in 98 Slackware 3.5, only to discover that I had a winmodem which didn't work too well. Had to write a script invoking isapnptools and a winmodem driver which I had to purchase for $5. Those were the days. Feel that I am getting soft now, dsl, Linuxmint 12, etc. Everything is so damn easy.

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Hasn't competition in the Linux community always been the case, between the various distros ?

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Well said. In my experience as a IT manager, I found most of the users to be clueless and not really interested in the processes on the network that they worked on.
I got tired of being saddled with by people who seemed to want to bitch and whine, rather than doing their jobs with the tools provided,.

Subsequently I am no longer an IT manager

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Oops

I spoke too quickly. I can't seem to keep my Gnome 3 settings (fonts, themes, etc) after a re-boot on my Mint 12 box. Posted this on Linuxquestions.org a few days ago with no responses so far.

Oh well ??

I had that same experience with my bank over the last five years. some charges on the card did not fit the pattern so I was contacted told to cut up the card and I got a new one the next day. Nice to know that some banks have processes which actually work and staff who are still awake.

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Same here. I loaded Mint 12 with Gnome 3 today. The option to use the Gnome 2 seemed like a waste of time. I like Gnome 3, use it on a Fedora 16 laptop. On Mint, everything worked right out of the box, including samba. Good stuff

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Well as a longtime Ubuntu user (been there since ver 8.04 I think), I was looking forward to 11.04. I loaded it up and Unity bitched that my computer had insufficient resources (P4 cpu, 3.2 gigs ram, Nvidia graphics card) so I had to revert to the Gnome 2 desktop. However this disallowed my moving my app icons around my screen, desktop effects were a nightmare to setup so I went to Linuxmint (which I have used before) and everything worked fine. Wonder why people are walking away from Ubuntu ?

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Have you heard about putty ?