Show of Hands

I think the last time I used Windows was maybe 2006. I just kept running into issues, and it made me look around. I switched to Ubuntu, and was fine with it, but got bored and tried to venture out.

I have a Mac that I got for teaching a few years ago, and that's been great. For research, I'm running Mint right now (I got lazy), but am looking to switch to something a bit more... spartan. This isn't a great comp., and I want it to be faster.

The main issue for me was that I couldn't get my girlfriend's laptop's click pad to work correctly with either Ubuntu or Mint, and I found the community was unable to solve the issue. It was kind of embarrassing, and left me disillusioned.

The touchpad? that is pretty bad. especially because there's an easy fix.

Nah, it's a click pad (touchpad without actual buttons). Too much of a pain to type up the issues here, but if you search for "Ubuntu (or Mint) clickpad issues," you can find a lot of people with the problem.

That is a pain. sorry for the bad experience.

Thanks, Zod. I was considering Bodhi Linux, but hadn't heard of this environment, and wanted to see if anyone had any experience with it. It's remarkably difficult to find any real review.

One more: have you tried the Haiku distro?

I haven't tried it, but I have heard of it. Isn't that a non-Linux alternative OS? I wonder if I should consider it for my old XP based dual core media computer? Another learning curve...

I'm fairly sure it's within the Linux framework, but I can't swear to that. seems to be very clean.

I've been on KDE since Unity popped up. I'm thinking of trying Bodhi, but I have no experience with the Enlightenment environment.

Nicely said. I agree. I've never heard of it either.

thanks. I do seem to recall that poll, alynn ;)

I agree, the poll is fine.