Debian desktops (Re: SUSE Linux Days Road Tour)

[Stephen Partington]

I have found that with ubuntu if i do not want unity then I install the
server media and add just gnome.

Steam os might be an interesting thing to look at as it is Debian plus
gnome with some additional drivers.
On Jul 26, 2014 12:26 PM, "Mike Bushroe" <mbushroe at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am still running Ubuntu, but after all the horror stories I have heard,
> I am still running 10.04LTS both at home and on all the test computers in
> the LAN Lab at work. It is getting a bit harder now that they have pulled
> the plug and the repositories no longer mix new software releases with
> lucid package trees so that software center and apt-get don't always find
> what I am looking for. I am going to have to get better at loading and
> compiling from source and handling large differences in library file
> versions. So far it has not been too much of a problem, so I have not
> explored upgrading to a newer major release accept for upgrading the
> computer in my office/library that I hardly ever use.I am thinking about
> moving the big machine out here to the family room and keeping the laptop
> off most of the time so that I will be working with the faster, more
> powerful, dual screen computer. I just don't feel like going into the
> library to work on it, perhaps because the location makes it feel more like
> work than like playing on the computer at home!
>
>   Not only am I being a stick in the mud about refusing to leave 10.04,
> but all the dual boots have XP on the flip side, accept for this laptop
> which came with 7. And I can't use that until I hack the password again
> (and change it BACK to something simple and easy to rememebr!!!)
>
> So for your OS count, personal (1) Ubuntu 10.04, (1) Ubuntu 12.04
> (virtually unused, (1) XP, (1) W7 (locked out)
>
> at work (6) Ubunutu 10.04, (8) XP
>
> Mike
>
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