Hi! Here I post an abridged and structured list of answers related to my post "qgis on linuxmint?" Agus
ORIGINAL COMMENT: [email protected] Having been an ubuntu user for a long time, I do not like ubuntu versions > 10.04 LTS, even after introducing the necessary tweaks to get something similar to the classic gnome. I feel ubuntu is heading towards simple desktops for office users, not convenient for technical and scientific work. Perhaps it's time to change to another linux distribution. ANSWERS IMPLYING CHANGING THE DISTRO: [email protected] I am using LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) since more than a year now and I am very satisfied with it. [email protected] Unity is a nightmare for people interested in production and moved me to abandon Ubuntu in favour of Debian Stable (currently Squeeze). QGIS, 1.74 anyhow, works very nicely on it. [email protected] No problem with QGIS and GRASS in ArchLinux, but I had some problems with java libraries and gvSIG. In fact I returned to a "standard" distribution, like Debian Testing and now Fedora 16. ANSWERS IMPLYING KEEPING UBUNTU BUT CHANGING THE DESKTOP [email protected] I've used Ubuntu since 7.04 distro and I understand you. I hate Unity desktop, but as it's possible to get the Gnome desktop I am still working with 11.10, ready to jump to 12.04. I supose I´ll fight for my gnome desktop, but it's possible to get. Note from [email protected]: This is what I currentely have under 11.10 but after many tweaks the system has still numerous differences with the classic gnome desktop used up to 10.04 [email protected] I met Linux Mint last year, and it's same as Ubuntu; even repositories are same for both... so the difference is just the desktop. Keep you with Ubuntu. A Google search for "ubuntu 12.04 gnome desktop" is useful. [email protected] Just use Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu. the ubuntugis repository and everything else still works fine and you got away from this unity thing. KDE has gone a long way, KDE4.8 is rock stable now! [email protected] I just install Cinnamon GUI on Ubuntu (see http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?page_id=61) and QGIS runs well. PS. It's GNU/Linux. No need to rush to another distro or stick to an old version of it. Get your favorite GUI instead :-) _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
