On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Ron Blizzard <rb4centos at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >> Odd you should mention it - a friend on a techie mailing list just tried >> to set up dual-boot XP w/ ubuntu, and had all *kinds* of grief, dunno if >> she just restored XP. Wouldn't recognize her USB keyboard, didn't get the >> graphics card and monitor right (which does surprise me), and she had fun >> trying to find in which submenu the X settings were (applications, not >> system!). > > My brother called this weekend. He's a Windows programmer who has > recently started experimenting with Linux. Ubuntu, specifically. He > upgraded and then his ATI video card quit working correctly. He > finally found the solution, but he searched all day (I was no help to > him). I have one partition set up with Linux Mint 10 (because my Dad > uses Linux Mint and I want to be able to support him over the phone). > Every time I boot up, Nautilus and Gnome-Panel don't come up. (I have > to go to a terminal and type "pkill nautilus" and "pkill gnome-panel" > to get them to work.) So, although Mint is "pretty" and uses modern > packages, it's not rock solid like CentOS. I wouldn't generalize based on your experience because Mint hasn't become a very popular distribution by being broken. Same goes for Ubuntu.