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Oh! I love cinnamon!...wait...we aren't talking about spices, are we?
In any case as has been pointed out AD NAUSEAM both here and on W8 Forum too -- the OS on the computer has totally NOTHING to do with the drop in PC sales --I'm not going to re-hash the old reasons again - they are all here in the Forums if you want to re-visit that whole discussion.
Jimbo,
You forgot to post a pic of a herd of bulls with that one.
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This generally good objective of freedom of choice works against Linux in this case.
Take your pick,
OSDisc.com - Linux
I have a preference for the below.
So cool ice cubes are jealous » PCLinuxOS
I honestly haven't come across a distro yet that's hit me as "the OS" unlike how I got that feeling with Windows 9x/ME, 2000, XP, and 7.
Linux Mint 14? Cinnamon is still premature and I don't agree with their forced clean reinstall upgrade method.
Kubuntu 12.04 LTS? Seemed to behave nicely in a VM, but turned out to be very unstable and buggy on my laptop.
PCLinuxOS? Felt very unrefined after installation.
I'm now currently looking at either Lubuntu or CentOS, or perhaps even Debian itself once Debian 7 rolls out.
Looking at it, while I do appreciate the wide and free array of choice I get with Linux distros, I'd appreciate even more coming across a Linux distro that is as refined an experience as Windows and simply works great. Linux in general seems to trip off at the most miniscule of things, at least in consumer-land. Perhaps CentOS (Red Hat) will be better from being enterprise-grade?
Certainly not as flexible, as i said in another post, I would like to stick with Windoze as it affords me the most flexibility when moving from one machine to another. Having used open source for what seems like ages now, I'd like to stick with the PortableApps suite. Then i only have to install Windoze and a few utilities on each machine or can borrow others when travelling.
PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives