On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 01:09:45 +0100 James Freer jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com allegedly wrote:
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Bev Nicolson lumos60@gmail.com wrote:
Not too late and thanks for that info Mick. Happy to hear other comments or views.
Bev.
here's mine FWIW.
Last summer i did a distro hopping session just to compare. When choosing a distro i try and have a balanced view, tend to focus on the package management, maintenance provision, as well as obviously the desktop itself.
I switched to xfce in 2009 simply because i liked the minimal approach and i add (remove one or two apps) what i want, rather than as i used to do with gnome a combination of removing and adding. Linux is about choice i think we can agree on. Now Ubuntu Unity, cinnamon and latest gnome are now heavier in resources than kde. If you want eye candy kde is now in 2nd place.
You mention Mint; as far as xfce is concerned when i tried it i found out that the maintainer ONE person, had a personal tragedy to cope with and so xfce for almost a year was 'dead'. Worth bearing in mind that staff will have illness/difficulties and as a user one needs to be sure that maintenance is carried out. Some of the smaller community distros are maintained by very knowledgeable talented folk e.g. pclos (best looking xfce desktop along with Vector Linux), Salix. I have respect for Mint but staffing is an issue although that might have been resolved now.
James
Thanks for that fairly comprehensive skim through your distros.
I confess I hadn't realised that Mint relied on such slim resources to maintain the version I use. Since I am happy with xfce, and mint is based on ubuntu (rather than the LMDE version I started with) I might as well move to xubuntu.
Mick
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