Slackware >:] Your distro is your choice thankfully. There are many good (and just as many or more bad) distros out there. Regardless of the scenario, I would recommend you do what I did when searching and download as many of the popular ones as you can, install them all and play on them until you find the one that suits you best. Mine happens to be Slackware :D
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Dan Bidleman <[email protected]> wrote: > You could go to debian if you like apt, being that its where apt came > from. If you like the bleeding edge packages you can just use the > unstable branch. Then you can install whatever front end you want. > > On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: >> When I tried to add back in my desktop cube, I was stuck with no window >> having a menu bar, no launcher bar, and no top desktop bar. Although I could >> still get to command line by Ctrl-Alt F#, what would be a command to start >> basic Gnome features? And as far as a distro, what does it say about the >> other mods they have as part of the main trunk? I just can't overlook a >> fubar of this magnitude, I am only just now reconsidering RedHat after the >> gcc 2.96 debacle. (RedHat released a beta + mods version of the compiler >> that couldn't properly compile the main c libraries, it finished, but the >> entire toolchain was subtly broken, and I was doing an LFS build - wasted >> about 3 days because of it). Also, with my wife, son, mom, and aunt on >> Linux, I wouldn't want them to do an update that hoses them after I put them >> all on ubuntu. Luckily, they are still on mint except my wife (kubuntu for >> now). >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: "A.Padilla" <[email protected]> >>> Date: May 1, 2011 10:52:03 AM EDT >>> To: Marshall <[email protected]> >>> Cc: Jax-LUG <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: Just say no! Ubuntu 11.04 is crap >>> >> >>> You could just change the UI. What makes Ubuntu compelling, for me, is the >>> package management (apt), the documentation and how up to date the packages >>> are. You sure there's no way to just get standard gnome as your ui? >>> >>> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I just installed 11.04 Ubuntu yesterday, and today am researching a new >>> distro. After being an Ubuntu fanboy for a good long while, i'm done. This >>> new Unity launcher bar is buggy at best, disables multiple desktops by >>> default, gets rid of the FREAKING APPLICATION MENU, and removes an >>> applications menus (some are hidden in the top bar and can be revealed with >>> a mouseover, gparted had none, nada, zip. I had to either Ctrl-Alt F1 and >>> kill it from there, or use the god-awful unity crap, which only became >>> visible again after switching desktops, and right-click and Quit from >>> there. I haven't decided on CentOS, Gentoo, rPath, Arch, or LFS. I would do >>> LFS again, but I still haven't found a good indie package management tool. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 >>> RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml >>> Unsubscribe [email protected] >>> >>> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
