I am just about finished converting my two BOINC machines (AMD Phenom II X4 and AMD Phenom II X 6) to Linux Mint 64. Once I compared the W7 64 and Linux results for BOINC projects, there was no option.

I've used it and it works great. I used it on my Mint Linux box to move my spindle drive to ssd. Worked like a charm. Parted Magic boot cd has clonezilla on it and other useful utilities. Don't leave home without it.

Took a little digging, installing various compression utilities from Ubuntu software center and adding some Nautilus action extensions, and, figuring out how to screenshot the evidence with Shutter, but suddenly, there it was:

The right click menu with the compress line:



and the frame and dropdown list showing 17 formats to zip something up and real fast test what gives the best result for any given set of files:



Never managed to get anything resembling to work in Windows explorer and to top it up, depending on file selection it's even able to handle the MS .cab format.

Linux Rulez, today.

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Yesterday at Webupd8 saw a little article on a utility to enable Mac like "natural scrolling" in Gnome, so fetched it and activated it and it took about 15 seconds to get used to the reverse scrolling [from what we're used to], including mouse-wheel. Then went to look on the intertube what the hoohah was about. Seems that Mac users are more stuck to their ways than Linux users ;P

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-07-2..._1_fingers-content-screen

I'll keep it till it bores or annoys (not likely)... it does feel "natural". :O

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edit: And oh, there's a quick switch button on the panel bar. :D

Nope, I asked myself for reports here ... just been reading the positive reports, but given the achieved crunching efficiency on my present Ubuntu setup and liking the minimalistic GNOME 3.3 I'm on, those kernels don't change, only the fronts and their CPU time drawing, no reason to waste cycles on trying yet another version.

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P.S. Gnome I use which has a nice little docky extension that sits right side over the scroll bar, never missing to hit it when I want. Dislike that Unity mousing to left edge wanting to do something with the Firefox sidebar and there the launcher pops up again. (There's a Unity applet that moves the launcher to bottom now, which I might give a try to see if the experience improves). As yet not been able to replicate my CPU/MEM/Fan indicators in Gnome that I have in Unity.