On 20 August 2013 11:59, William Kibira <[email protected]> wrote: > I really don't like the road linux has taken.
You talk about "linux" as if it were a single entity. The road your GNU/Linux environment takes is the one you tell it to take. GNOME 2 is still live and well, in the fork known as MATE[1]. There are plenty of other desktop environments out there, so just choose one you like. I use Ubuntu. By which I mean, I start with the Ubuntu Minimal ISO[2] (which is only ~30MB), then install Xorg and a window manager called awesome[3]. Then I install the packages I actually want to have installed, and no more. I use Ubuntu's repositories because I like them, despite having inherited some annoying oddities from Debian; I don't, however, like Ubuntu's default desktop environment or default package selections, and so I simply don't use it. The computer environment is like the home environment. You've got to make it your own. It won't feel like yours if it doesn't feel like you. [1] http://mate-desktop.org/about/ [2] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD [3] http://awesome.naquadah.org/ _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
