[Discuss] best distro for Father's Day?

[Freddy Martinez]

Recently installed Ubuntu (whatever the latest version is with an animal
name in it) for my dad. Mint is a fine choice as well. I'm with Bonnie.


Freddy

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 20:40 Bonnie King <misterbonnie at gmail.com> wrote:

> mint
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Carl Karsten <carl at nextdayvideo.com>
> wrote:
> > I am curious why the derivatives for this case.   I suspect they come at
> a
> > cost.  For instance I would think Ubuntu is going to be more stable (for
> > whatever we think that means) than a derivative.
> >
> > I seem to remember Mint being "good for older hardware because some
> drivers
> > are no longer in the current ubuntu repo"  but then there is a huge list
> of
> > why Mint isn't a good idea.
> >
> > I would go with Ubuntu
> > then pick between:
> > LTS so you don't have to worry about updates as often
> > or cutting edge and deal with dist-update every 6 months (deal= he does
> it
> > and you deal with the side effects or you just do it.)  (don't ask me how
> > much of a problem it is.. I hardly do it and really it depends.  I hear
> in
> > general it is no big deal)
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Peter Baumgarten <
> me at peter-baumgarten.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> If it is not too late Ubuntu 14.04 MATE edition
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Drew Fustini <pdp7pdp7 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> My dad, a home Windows user, told me he was going to have pay $80 to
> >>> renew Symantec anti-virus.  This gave me the idea that I should
> >>> finally get around to migrating him to Linux!  Especially since he
> >>> complains that his Windows PC keeps getting slower and slower.
> >>>
> >>> I ordered this refurb Acer mini PC with Intel Atom quad-core 2.41GHz,
> >>> 4GB RAM & 1TB HDD:
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TUJUTY4?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00
> >>>
> >>> I am thinking of installing the latest Ubuntu (15.04).  Personally, I
> >>> run Debian on everything, but I figure Ubuntu would be easier for a
> >>> Windows convert.
> >>>
> >>> 1) Any other distro that folks would for a Linux newbie?
> >>>
> >>> 2) What's the best way to convert the Acer's pre-installed Windows 8.1
> >>> into a VM before install Linux?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> thanks!
> >>> drew
> >>>
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