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Norman Peelman  
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 More options Oct 28 2012, 4:09 pm
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup
From: Norman Peelman <npeelman...@cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:09:54 -0400
Local: Sun, Oct 28 2012 4:09 pm
Subject: Re: Linux mint. Installer confused - giving up
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On 10/23/2012 01:10 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> In article <k66b8o$th...@news.albasani.net>, t...@invalid.invalid
>> (The Natural Philosopher) writes:

>>> Maybe try KDE next..but I dont really like te visuals very much.

>> I ran KDE on my Slackware box for a while (Blackbox was a bit
>> too stripped down) - but its everything-including-the-kitchen-sink
>> approach was starting to bother me.  It was when I discoverd that
>> it was kicking off all sorts of background processes that were eating
>> my machine alive that I got rid of it.  I'm now running Xfce -
>> lean and mean.

>> My wife's laptop is running Gnome (Ubuntu 10.10), which gives her
>> ease of use without too many hassles.  My laptop is currently running
>> Mint 12 with LXDE - again, pretty stripped down, but efficient.

> I'm going for gnome3 next. I will either love it or loathe it I think.

> Not ideal for the laptop as a final system, but I should be able to see
> what a sexy 'Mac' style desktop looks like and behaves like, even if its
> dog slow.

   What are the odds of trying MACPUP v528 (or latest v529) on that
system? Not sure about your software requirements though... take a look
if you haven't though. http://macpup.org

--
Norman
Registered Linux user #461062
AMD64X2 6400+ Ubuntu 10.04 64bit


 
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