Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

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 about. -Dave. On 5/11/2018 7:14 PM, Wayne van Loon wrote: Here is a link to DistroW

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

Here is a link to DistroWatch's top 10 distros where you can read their take on a few old line distros including Slackware that is being discussed here. Wayne On 05/11/2018 06:55 PM, Dave Lien - W7DAL wrote: Let me ask a simple minded questio

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

Let me ask a simple minded question: I've been running Linux for maybe 20 years. Nothing fancy, office apps mostly, and went through all the early update struggles, etc. Played with virtually every version along the way eventually settling on Ubuntu until that silly debacle. Then cut over to M

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

On 05/10/2018 09:06 PM, elcaseti wrote: > The fact that Slackware is still using KDE4 is very appealing to me. My > command line skills are not at the Slackware level, but I bet I can find a > Slackware-based distro that is more to my liking that's still using KDE4. > > Too bad Slax moved away fr

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

The fact that Slackware is still using KDE4 is very appealing to me. My command line skills are not at the Slackware level, but I bet I can find a Slackware-based distro that is more to my liking that's still using KDE4. Too bad Slax moved away from KDE. I used to use Slax for certain simple tas

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

The amusing part of all of this is I really don't use any advanced features of KDE. I just like the overall look/feel. I have no idea what enhancements Plasma brought to the table. Mint/XFCE is an ok solution, I'm using it for an old laptop with limited RAM. I just have much more KDE familiarit

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

Slackware 14.2 is currently using KDE 4.14. It is very nice but not the latest so if you follow the updates from KDE it might look like stuff is missing :( But there is a contributor for the project that runs the ktown repo for bleeding edge versions of KDE and its dependencies. I don't use it

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

On Thu, 10 May 2018, elcaseti wrote: In order to replace Mint KDE, I'm testing various disros that include KDE plasma 5, or Plasma 4, or Trinity Desktop Environment. TDE is the fork of KDE3, much like Mate is the fork of Gnome2. Slackware comes with KDE as well as Xfce4. Pat Volkerding has a

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

So much for installing a dual boot Mint 18.3 I was about to perform. At work I use FC28 with KDE, mainly for bleeding edge, and for libre'ness. At home I want something that has better media support. I'm not a fan of Gnome, and I've been unable to comprehend Unity (haven't tried that hard TBH).

[PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

Mint is discontinuing their KDE Plasma release. It's not that they will still use KDE apps without Plasma. They no longer produce a distro that includes any aspect of the KDE software project.Here is Mint's blog post announcing that they will stop producing a KDE Mint distro: " https://blog.