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

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

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

2018-05-11 Thread Dave Lien - W7DAL
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

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

2018-05-11 Thread Wayne van Loon
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

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

2018-05-11 Thread King Beowulf
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

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

2018-05-10 Thread elcaseti
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

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

2018-05-10 Thread Ben Koenig
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

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

2018-05-10 Thread Rich Shepard
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

Re: [PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

2018-05-10 Thread Johnathan Mantey
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).