You know, desktop design isn't really the main choice factor of Linux. Choice at installation (and later) is a wonderful thing. Of course it almost always boils down to a balancing act between ease of use and usability... Which in it's own wording seems paradoxical. ( :) )
-Dan Sent from my iPhone On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Nathan England <[email protected]> wrote: > > I however have a deep dislike for anything *buntu and have been rather happy > with my lfs systems and Fedora when necessary. I'm also a die hard KDE guy. I > spent the last year on Ubuntu with Gnome, forced so I would learn it, and I > am back with KDE, now 4.6.1 and I love it, i don't miss Guh-nome at all. > > I also just spent about a week with openSUSE 11.4 and well... it only lasted > about a week and I'm back on Fedora again. It is interesting to me. SUSE has > always been a KDE supporter and openSUSE, with the exception of one release, > not sure which, has always favored KDE as well. So how is it that a KDE based > distro can manage to screw up KDE so horridly? I guess it's not really KDE > they messed up, but their system and package system is bullocks! > > I have been very happy with Fedora, once I figured out yum... kpackagekit is > worthless. > > Nathan > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:17 PM, S Kreimeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > You should make a Tiny Core Linux partition. It would be a fun project : ) > http://www.tinycorelinux.com/ > > > On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 11:16 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: >> I would agree with Mike though I might not limit Ubuntu much in disk space. >> I say that just because if you find something you like better, you may well >> just replace Ubuntu with it. >> >> BTW, if you are not aware of it, a great many distros in the Debian family >> are Ubuntu derivatives like Mint is (thugh they now have a straight Debian >> derivative as well). For that matter, Debian itself may be a viable >> alternative for you. With Ubuntu moving to Unity and Debian to Gnome 3, it >> will make an interesting difference. >> >> Larry >> > >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Mike Ballon <[email protected]> wrote: >> In your situation I would stick with Ubuntu, but only use say of the hard >> disk for the install. Then load virtualbox to play with several other >> distros like Mint (my current), decide if you like any of them more than >> Ubuntu, and then install that one onto the free space you left open. > >> >> > >> Or if you don't want to partition your drive for some reason, test the other >> distros on your old laptop and go from there. > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:23 AM, James Finstrom >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> It was a dark stormy night in 2005. A stranger in a trench coat approached >> and handed me a CD. I no longer had to fight the benign little issues nor >> did I have to put any effort in to make my laptop run Linux. Alas I have >> been using derivatives of Ubuntu ever since. I used Kbuntu for years then >> they decided to move to KDE 4 which lacked my ability to like it. I switched >> over to gnome and we have become good friends. Ok lets get to the point. I >> am getting a new laptop today and I am debating of weather I should stick >> with Ubuntu who has never done me wrong or do I try something new. I have >> no issues from a technical or moral standpoint with Ubuntu and am happy to >> use it until I do. That being said It has been almost 6 years and there have >> been many new distros born and old ones brought up to par so I would like >> feed back. I do wish to stay in the Debian family tree but outside of that I >> am open to suggestions. >> >> -- >> James Finstrom >> >> >> >> >> > >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> >> >> >> -- >> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry >> >> The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, >> that I wish it always to be kept alive. >> - Thomas Jefferson >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Nathan England > I believe in the Constitution and the 4th Amendment. I am innocent and have > nothing to hide, but NO agent of the state crosses my threshhold without a > valid warrant signed by a judge and properly submitted. 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