While Mint is designed to do as much as possible without a terminal, there are SOME things that simply MUST still be done in a terminal as no gui exists to do so. No, not a lot, but there are some.

Dead a buried. Long live Butter.

https://popcorntime.statuspage.io/

so

http://www.networkworld.com/article/...inux-aero.html

Needs a update of their site page. I guess it still supports netflix but I am not a user so I cannot say.

Try it> here is what you will get

http://status.popcorntime.io/

Yes, in ways it is, no doubt there. :)

Regards...

That is big news to all the average people using it. When I switched to Linux I was almost computer illiterate, but had no trouble installing and using systems like Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva and Federa. Without reading any of your threads, I am guessing you insist on applying Windows thinking to other operating systems. If so, you are not alone. That is a mistake many people make.
What do you want that is not in your distribution's package repository? The major distributions have everything most people will ever need and installing something is an easy # <name of package manager> install <name of package>. Most people will never need to install anything from outside their chosen distributions. So this argument only applies to a very small number of people, not to "the average person." Which strengthens my suspicion mentioned above.

I am not trying to be confrontational. Just suggesting that you approached the endeavour with a wrong mindset.

Point One: I use Mint on my primary laptop (long story that has to do with kernel support of the audio chipset; it did not work with Slackware and did work with Mint) and I do almost all root stuff and much user stuff in the terminal. Mint is designed to be as friendly as possible to persons not familiar with the terminal, but the terminal in Mint is as powerful as the terminal in any other distro.

Mint is a nice piece of work.

Point Two: Belittling others seldom yields positive results.

My suggestion is to use both. Computers are pretty cheap, my desktop environment is a windows 7 system and a fedora 22 systemside-by-side, with a CentOS7 server supporting both. Both OS have their own strengths and weaknesses, it doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing choice between the two.

I find myself usually using windows for general web surfing/email/software development and games, and linux for server work and development, nuts and bolts tools, and diagnostic/testing. I pretty much can do whatever I need to do on either OS with varying degrees of ease of use.

For me the biggest problem with linux is the lack of coherent documentation that sends you to the internet for answers, and the nasty attitudes of some advocates when you're trying to get support in some community forum. As a user of support forums since usenet days, I do find that windows support forums are generally more helpful and civil than *nix oriented ones.

I agree that this is an issue on some forums. Some Linux users forget that we were all newbies once. That's why I hang out here.

I've pretty much abandoned Windows. I find it just too clunky and annoying for words, but it has taken me a decade to get to that point.

Microsoft does seem intent on making Windows as annoying as possible. I dread booting over to Windows on my one dual-boot machine, because I keep having to fend off boarding attempts by Windows 10. I feel like the I'm the hero in a bad pirate movie continually having to repel attackers.

So... your never ending problem was essentially getting hardware to work then? Your argument is then "It's too hard to get this hardware to work".
That's actually fine. Using hardware that isn't supported by linux because the manufacturers make it a major pita to support will cause it to not work easily.

As for easily installing programs... I heavily disagree. There is nothing easier then package systems to install programs.
However, are these programs you want to install windows programs? Well, windows programs work better in windows. Forcing windows programs into linux through wine is a predictable recipe for frustration, one I make a lot actually.

Your problems are most likely caused by the manufacturer and software causing trouble for linux, not the other way around. If either had provided methods to make it accessible in linux, I sincerely believe it would be quite easy to install and deal with.


So... it's too bad it didn't work for you. This may not apply to you, but I almost continuously warn people, if you try to force windows or non-supported hardware onto linux, you will have a terribly frustrating time and will likely give up and mistakenly blame linux. I on the other hand, use other hardware that I knew was supported (quick online search) and programs natively based in linux. Because of this, my experience has been much, much different then yours. Simple OS installs, everything immediately supported, all programs installed and updated at once.

So good luck and if you want to try again in a better method next time, linux will be around.

As a now ex-Windows and Mac user, I found learning how to use Gnu/Linux was no harder than learning how to use MacOS after knowing just Windows - it isn't more difficult, just different.

If you try again, I suggest either dual booting or loading Linux on a second PC. Get your stuff done using Windows while you get used to how to talk to your Linux box. Then start getting more and more of your stuff done using the Linux PC. After a while you may find that you'll be happily selecting the most convenient system for a given job (whether that's one or two depends on how your mileage varies).

Broadcom wireless and nVidia graphics probably do more harm to Linux than anything else, I avoid this hardware like the plague. The other major issue is folks trying to make Windows programs run under Linux. If you need Windows programs and nothing else will do - run Windows...

Have any of you who posted a reply to this thread thought that,... just maybe,... the original poster was baiting/trolling?!?!

I prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt, until proven wrong. If a person is a troll, his nature will soon become apparent.

that thread title was just too good to be true, i knew there had to be a catch... ;)

jkirksey1889,
while i totally respect your choice, you know that posting this on a linux forum will get some reaction, right?
i think you do.

here's my :twocents::
my first computers were laptops handed down to me, with totally bogged windows installations on them.
so i chose to reinstall windows with some standardized installation cd.
after switching to linux, i can say that that was neither easier nor harder than installing linux.
video & wifi drivers wouldn't work out of the box, and so on.

but, the approach to fixing these problems is fundamentally different on linux.

i think it has something to do with windows being totally non-diverse. there's no compatibility problems (only time-wise). one solution fits all.
this is very different in linux.
babylonian confusion.
the first step to finding a solution is to find the proper channels where to look for a solution, or to recognize which solution might fit my system.