On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 13:10:55 +0100 Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk allegedly wrote:
The OP didn't make it clear that this was the specific reason he disliked Unity (there are plenty of other valid reasons)
Agreed.
If you dislike Ubuntu's practices and want to avoid the software on philosophical grounds then I'd say Mint (other than LMDE) isn't a practical alternative any more than xubuntu etc are. From that I (rightly or wrongly) ascertained that Bob just hates Unity :-)
Also agreed. I'm fairly sure that Bob will say that he hates Unity for plenty of (good) reasons other than the philosophical/political objection.
I wasn't intending to suggest that Bob's reasons /were/ philosophical I was simply pointing out that ditching a distro because you don't like the desktop manager (rather than switching to a derivative) /could/ be a valid decision.
I found the Mint LMDE version worryingly out of date (for security updates) quite quickly. At least ubuntu released patches quickly.
You do know it is 100% compatible with the Debian repo's ? so you can have your security updates the same time Debian release them, in fact up until fairly recently this was the default.
Yes I do. And I think that LMDE had "security.debian.org" in its apt sources file. But I am pretty sure that I wasn't seeing the expected updates in LMDE on time. I'm also pretty sure that I wasn't seeing any (non-security related) updates (e.g. firefox which seems to be updated every other day at the moment) on time.
I could be wrong of course, or my memory could be faulty (both highly plausible) but I wasn't happy enough with LMDE to persevere and investigate and I switched to the 'buntu based XFCE mint, then back to Xubuntu Like James did a while ago, I am going through a "distro hopping" phase at the moment.
Cheers
Mick
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