I did so, LXDE but, it goes deeper than that, i mean the crashing, the annoying failures, the constant need to update. Well, i guess indeed i do speak for myself, i can't say the same for everyone since different people use linux for different things. So that is what MATE is, i have never seen it, only heard of it. LXDE works for me.
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Benjamin Tayehanpour < [email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
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