On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 10:24:24PM +0100, Bev Nicolson wrote:
On 26/06/17 21:42, Ted Harding wrote:
I guess I'll start off with a live CD/DVD so that I can see what it's like in detail, before settling down to the full install from an install DVD.
The Linux Mint website offers downloads of a variety of ISOs for building CDs/DVDs. However, I'm currently short of resources (lack of remaining disk-space on my one working laptop), so I'm wondering where to look to buy one. Suggestions?
This looks OK: http://thelinuxshop.co.uk/
I've never really understood the apparently huge importance to poeple of what 'desktop' they're using. I suppose to some extent because I used to work (as in my job) on Solaris and went home to a Linux box (after I left cygwin) the environment was always changing so I just got used to it.
I have stayed with XFCE over the years (with the odd excursion into LXDE) and that has kept me happy. I did have KDE available as an alternative one a few systems for a while but never found it offered any advantages really. On Solaris I used FVWM and I also had that on my home system for a while, if it was still *easily* available I'd probably use it. However using a non-standard WM/Desktop does mean support is a bir more difficult.