[TriLUG] Newbie linux question

[John Vaughters]

I've tested peppermint and mint. I am not quite sure the point of peppermint, but mint seems quite nice, however, being that knowing Red Hat is probably the best career decision if you are looking for improving your career options, I recommend Centos. It will not give you the incredible user experience of a Ubuntu or mint, but it has Gnome 2 as a default and it is literally exactly like RedHat, which means you learn the Red Hat methods as you do your daily work. 

This is the recommendation I give all new Linux users that are career minded. Enjoy your Linux and welcome to one of the most expansive areas of learning I have found.

Jeremy Davis <jeremydavis at jeremydavis.biz> wrote:

>It sounds like you were looking for Linux Mint, which is also based on
>Ubuntu. Linux Mint's efforts to provide and preserve the Gnome 2 experience
>has helped it stay at the the top of the distrowatch.com list for a long
>time now. Cinnamon and Mate desktop environments are optional with Linux
>Mint and both are very much like Gnome 2. Mate is a fork of Gnome 2,
>Cinnamon is Gnome 3 customized to look and feel like Gnome 2. There were
>hiccups at first when Gnome 2 support went away and Cinnamon was born,
>however, Cinnamon is pretty solid today.
>
>If you are looking for something that just works
>
>13 Maya Ubuntu Precise Long term support release (LTS), supported until
>April 2017 with the Cinnamon desktop.
>
>http://www.linuxmint.com/oldreleases.php
>
>Jeremy
>
>
>On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:47 PM, <jstolfi at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> I have been using a Ubuntu derived distro called peppermint Linux on my
>> laptop. I have been using Ubuntu for years, but my laptop hp2000 seems
>> sluggish. Ubuntu proper ran fine on it, but I disliked unity. If the base
>> os is the same why would I have performance problems? Is there another
>> distro that will give me a gnome 2 look and feel, with the ease of Ubuntu?
>> Thanks for helping.
>>
>> Jeremy
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