Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

2018-05-12 Thread Dave Lien - W7DAL
Rich- That's very interesting. I came to computers fairly late, it not being my primary technology. But between keeping planes (and ships) from being hit by radar controlled missiles and helping put men on the moon I very early on set up a "key sort" aka "edge notch" data card sorting system

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

2018-05-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 12 May 2018, Dave Lien - W7DAL wrote: Thanks for the comments. I came up the same route with Red Hat, Mandrake, SUSE, Slackware and a dozen others along the way. But currently recommend MINT to newbies since it is hassle-free to install and update, looks a lot like windows (yea I know.

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

2018-05-12 Thread Dave Lien - W7DAL
Rich- Thanks for the comments. I came up the same route with Red Hat, Mandrake, SUSE, Slackware and a dozen others along the way. But currently recommend MINT to newbies since it is hassle-free to install and update, looks a lot like windows (yea I know...) and meets the needs of almost every

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

2018-05-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 May 2018, Dave Lien - W7DAL wrote: QUESTION: What is so unique about some of the other old major Linux lines that make them so important to some users? Or is is mostly a matter of habit and not wanting to change? Dave, Starting in 1997 I ran Red Hat 4.0 through 7.0 but tired of t

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

2018-05-12 Thread elcaseti
After some research, I think I'll give the KDE version of Slackel a try. On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 7:35 PM, Dave Lien - W7DAL wrote: > TNX Wayne. I follow Distrowatch from time to time and just downloaded > manjaro which is the current favorite. Am installing it now to see what all > the noise is