Hi Courtenay, Like you I am a Ubuntu user who just could not get used to the Unity desktop. I heard a lot of buzz about Linux Mint so installed it two months ago. I find it crashes a lot particularly when there is Flash but it also locked up my computer when using Simple Scan or Thunderbird. This frustrates me to no end because when your locked out of your keyboard what can you do except hit the power button? (I thought Linux on the desktop was supposed to be getting better.)
Unless Unity is drastically improved at next release I may be installing Lubuntu which uses LXDE or maybe Pinguy Linux which I have had good luck with in the past. Happy installing! Robert On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Courtenay Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using Ubuntu for several years with Gnome. I just got a new > laptop and went to 11.10.. I can't stand Unity, and Gnome 3 is much > the same. I've been using XFCE but it has a few things it just can't > seem to do (arrange desktop icons by name??). > Any XFCE users that would be willing to offer me support.. or other > alternatives for desktop? I'd even consider switching distros if > someone has a good solution.. I liked Gnome quite fine. > Thanks! > -- > Courtenay Watson, RAHT with Archie, CRNCL & CRNT > http://www.cpetrescue.blogspot.com > Kamloops BC > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
