[Blackpool] Python intro

[James Page]

Hi Tony,

Thanks for your points about Mint. I'd read similar things about codecs and
the like when doing some reading on it earlier. I tried finding the
Mint4Win installer, but couldn't find it - I thought that would be the
easiest way of getting it installed and dual-booted! I did manage to find
Wubi, though, so I got that downloaded and will see how I get on with that
for the next few days. I can always uninstall it and try Mint next week if
I find I don't like it!


J


On 17 March 2012 20:09, Tony Hughes <tonyhughes1212 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>
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