[Blackpool] Python intro

[Tony Hughes]

Hi James

I know we have a mix of opinion on what is a good distro particularly 
for a newcomer to a PC install.

After using Ubuntu in my early days I've gravitated to Mint as my 
working OS as I find it simple to install and they package all the 
codec's you need for video and audio playback out of the box.

In that sense it's not as "Free" as in Freedom as some distro's but it 
does the Job for me. I'm currently using Mint 11 on my Working Desktop 
and find it stable and easy to use.

I'm waiting to see how they progress with the Gnome 2 fork (Mate) before 
I upgrade to 13 which will be based on the next Ubuntu LTS due at the 
end of April.

I'm sure the others will have a view too.

Regards

Tony (the one who joined the hang out at the end this morning)

On 17/03/12 15:02, James Page wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> Great to (finally) make it down this morning and do some Python-y stuff -
> really enjoyed it.
>
> I'm running Python on my Windows laptop at the moment, but I can appreciate
> that Python might have a more natural home in Linux, so I'm looking at
> distros to install. I run a VPS with CentOS 5, so I'm more used to working
> with that on the command line (to a very limited extent), but I've been
> looking at Mint and Ubuntu to put on my laptop - can anybody help me make a
> decision between the two?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> James