LinuxMint Question

[Nathan England]

I appreciate your input. I go back and forth between xfce and kde 
because I personally really really love the glitchy pig, but sometimes I 
need to get work done more than mess with windows resizing and screens 
blacking out.

I will look at lxde.



On 2015-10-29 08:56, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 00:22:02 -0700
> Nathan England <nathan at nmecs.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> My Pastor told me tonight he's had enough of Windows and wants to go
>> to Linux.
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> LinuxMint Cinnamon or LinuxMint Mate
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> So my question is, which is better for a complete noob to linux?
>> He really is only interested in LibreOffice, Chrome and maybe Firefox.
> 
> LXDE.
> 
> IIRC, those Mint front ends had those warm and fuzzy "we're gonna guess
> what you want next" interfaces. Some people like that, but my take is
> that logical thinking people just want a static menu that always
> navigates the same and gives them what they want without upselling. In
> other words, a Windows 9x start menu.
> 
> KDE, Xfce and LXDE have those. KDE's a glitchy pig. Xfce is nice, but
> it's kind of resource expensive and my 4+ year experience with Xfce is
> that it sometimes does bizarre, glitchy stuff. My (maybe a year, all
> told) experience with LXDE is it's completely reliable, low resource,
> and works perfectly alongside an intelligent person. As a huge added
> plus, it's trivial to add dmenu to LXDE so that to run most programs,
> one's fingers don't even have to leave the keyboard.
> 
> By the way, I use Openbox, but I think that's not discoverable enough
> for the average user.
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt
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