On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:44:16 +0000 Bev Nicolson lumos60@gmail.com allegedly wrote:
I think the time has come. Yesterday 11.10 'uninstalled' Libre Office off its own bat. Nul points and a bit worrying.
So, without wishing to turn this thread into a discussion over which distro to go for, and without installing it over Ubuntu which I'd rather not do, how do I swap? I've used Ubuntu for ages now so I've no idea who to go about this.
Bev
Pretty straightforward really. Backup /home (even easier if /home is on its own partition). Then load one of the alternatives in your DVD drive, select "install" and choose "install alongside Ubuntu" if you /really/ want to keep the old Ubuntu installation. Personally I'd wipe the existing installation and install the new one.
Again, personally I'd recommend Mint with XFCE. But as others have said, Mate is a reasonable alternative (though it uses GTK2 and bonobo which are deprecated) if you really want the "old skool" Gnome 2 look. Cinnamon is OK, but looks just like XFCE to me.
You really need to decide for yourself what you are going to be happy with. All the Mint versions can be played with as live distros (as can most others these days of course) before you finally trash Ubuntu.
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