Actually one reason I'm moving away from Ubuntu is because they moved to Unity. Gnome Shell is not much better. Both are, to me, a step in the wrong direction.
Ramon Casha On 3 June 2011 09:05, Anton Xuereb <[email protected]> wrote: > Good to say that Arch has infact moved to gnome 3 and gnome-shell but I > guess you can choose to install whatever you want then. The standard rolling > release has gnome 3 in it now > > > On 3 June 2011 09:03, Ovidiu Stroe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm new on the MLUG list but i have some insights . >> I would go for the debian edition, which is also a rolling distro . Since >> ubuntu moved to Unity the guys at Mint will have a hard time maintaining the >> gnome 2 packages . >> I recently divorced ubuntu and got to Arch ;) . >> >> /Ovidiu >> >> >> On 06/03/2011 09:00 AM, Anton Xuereb wrote: >> >> why don't you try arch Ramon ? I never looked back >> >> On 3 June 2011 08:59, James Attard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello Ramon, >>> >>> Linux Mint is incredibly fast (the fastest distro I ever used)...but >>> you have to see it by yourself. Alas, not that this should be the >>> reason to use a different distro. >>> >>> The difference between the debian and standard edition is that the >>> former can be always updated so in theory you dont ever need to >>> reinstall the system again. That's one big plus. I also find it faster >>> than the standard (ubuntu) edition. Also I am assuming you talk in >>> debian lingo and comfortable in that environment. >>> >>> James Attard >>> >>> w. www.jamesattard.com >>> w. www.r00tb0x.com >>> e. [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Ramon Casha <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > Does anyone have any experience with Linux Miint? >>> > >>> > In particular I'd like to know whether the standard edition or debian >>> edition is better. >>> > I'm thinking of getting a divorce from Ubuntu. >>> > >>> > >>> > Ramon Casha >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > MLUG-list mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MLUG-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MLUG-list mailing >> [email protected]http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MLUG-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > >
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