On 28 October 2013 10:04, Anthony Anson tony.anson@girolle.co.uk wrote:
What do you mean by 'desktop environment'? If I'm correct in my guess, I prefer Gnome - been using it since around 2000 though, so I'd be a bit biased.
Gnome 2 would be fine, but looking at Wheezy that appears to be Gnome 3. Between Gnome 3 and KDE 4 I think I prefer KDE but that's not saying a lot.
I really don't "know" Debian very well. I assume I have all sorts of desktop managers that are just an apt-get install away, but which are the most "polished"?
- Which Debian disk should I start with?
If I can find them, I can send you a set of Lenny and apps - 6 or 7 discs.
To be honest that was a bit of a lazy question. When I last experimented with Debian I used the unstable or testing branch (I forget which), which at that time was considered to be "stable" by anything other than Debian's high standards.
For my purposes, do I go stable, testing or unstable? I have to confess I had never even heard of "Jessie" (testing).
(One thing I really like about Ubuntu is the simple version numbers: <year>.<month> is trivial to understand. If there was one thing that other distros would take from Ubuntu I'd love it to be that!)
I am luck enough to have good Internet access at home so obtaining the disks when I work out which ones I need shouldn't be too hard. really grateful for the offer though.