What's everyone using?

[Chris Morris]

What flavour of our favourite OS are you all using these days?
And how good is it?

The reason I ask, is that my now ancient Ubuntu 10.04 install, although
still going faultlessly, is complaining about no longer being supported
with updates.
So its time to move to something more modern.
As I dont fancy Ubuntu's new desktops, I'm looking at Linux-Mint's (MATE
64bit) or perhaps Ubuntu's 12.04 with LXDE or some other normal GUI.

Suggestions?

Chris

[Jon Zendatta]

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 gnome. bloated but cool

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[Erin Drummond]

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with Cinnamon. It can be a bit buggy at times,
especially with multiple monitors, but its worlds better than standard
Gnome 3 in terms of usability.

I tried MATE and its ok, pretty much the same old gnome2 (unsuprising
considering its a fork :P). In my opinion it will become less and less
relevant in future as everything will move to Gnome3/GTK 3.

LXDE is nice if your computer is old, I had it running on an old PC at
work and its fast and stable

[Chris Morris]

I've just tried a live cd of kubuntu 12.04, don't really like that.
Might try ubuntu with LXDE. I kinda like the simple clean interface.

chris

[Rose McGillicuddy]

I'm still on Pclinuxos 2012 kde.  It's probably a bit bloated but I find Pclinuxos really easy, having become somewhat lazy and spoiled by it.  It comes with a variety of desktops, but haven't tried any of them recently.  Last year I tired LXDE and Enlightment but can't remember too much about them.

Rose

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[chris morris]

Now using Ubuntu 12.04 with LXDE which seems to be ok but looking for a
way to shutdown the system on a timer.
In my old Gnome2 install I used an app called gShutdown. But that only
works in Gnome or KDE.
I have a couple of backup scripts running in task-scheduler and I'm
thinking I should be able to run one last command via that to shutdown
the system after the backups are done.
The trick is, to find a shutdown command that doesn't require super-user
privileges..

Any ideas?

chris

[Erin Drummond]

Hi Chris,

You can create a script with your shutdown commands and "setuid root"
it to run it as a lesser privileged user.

eg. sudo chmod 4755 /path/to/script.sh

and then schedule it as normal

Erin