Re: Fwd: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 07:51:48AM -0700, Andrew Kane wrote: ...I've been told multiple times that we still have a non-negligible set of users owning/running hardware that can't do DVDs. The set of hardware which can't boot from DVDs *or* boot from a USB stick must surely be pretty

Re: Fwd: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread brian m. carlson
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 05:49:59PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 07:51:48AM -0700, Andrew Kane wrote: As someone who deals with a lot of random donated hardware, I can attest that we run into these cases frequently. It may be rare that new systems lack these

Re: Fwd: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 07:51 -0700, Andrew Kane wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 13:31 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: ...I've been told multiple times that we still have a non-negligible set of users owning/running

Re: Fwd: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Andrew Kane
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 07:51 -0700, Andrew Kane wrote: As someone who deals with a lot of random donated hardware, I can attest that we run into these cases frequently. Interesting data point, thanks. hat sort of vintage