Gnome 2.33 was a good, solid, desktop that worked very well. It is
disappearing as even Mint now has 3.0.
Unity, or 3.0 is a mess and I couldn't even figure out how to get a
taskbar on the bottom of the screen. There was this ribbon on the left
side, but right clicking on the icons seemed to do very little.
On 11/17/2011 01:23 PM, Wesley Peterson wrote:
Actually, I'm happy running gnome, though YEARS AGO when I had
Mandrake (which should date me) Linux running on one of my machines, I
was a KDE user and liked it.
On Nov 17, 2011 1:18 PM, "Mark Wallace" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Try Lubuntu and Xubuntu. Your system could probably handle at
least some of the features in the newer distros.
Also try turning the crank, faster. LOL
Mark
On 11/17/2011 01:12 PM, Wesley Peterson wrote:
I'm also running an old system at home. I still use 8.04 because
some features of the later LTS didn't play well with my video board.
Wes
On Nov 17, 2011 1:08 PM, "James E. LaBarre"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 11/17/2011 12:59 PM, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Kubuntu 11.10. If your system is more than a year or two
old, your video
card might not be up to snuff. That can be fixed in
command line, but a
first time user (I hate the term newbie) might really
freak out when he
gets a black screen.
A year or two??? HA, my home system is more like 7 years
old, and no budget to get anything else. I hope that's not a
requirement for OSes from this point out, otherwise I'll be
going back to quill pens and inkwells <g>.
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