On Tuesday, March 22, 2016, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > Sorry, I should get to the end before I respond!
That's okay, Lisi, I do that, too, especially when trying to work e-mail with a tablet. And this gives me a chance to elucidate on my situation. I have liked and used Debian for at least 10 years (after 10+ years with Yggdrasil, Redhat, Fedora), but, as GNOME 2 was giving way to GMOE 3 (ugh), I tried some of the Debian-like distros like Mint but didn't like them. Finally, default Deb 8 I thought was the end for me, but Mate has allowed me to keep my old desktop the way I want it and still keep using a current Debian, so I am happy for now. SHAMELESS PLUG: Please keep MATE as part of Deb 9..*!! BTW, so far I have upgraded two hosts remotely and they went pretty much flawlessly (I have used in-place upgrade on one server successfully since Deb 5, and the upgrade process keeps getting better and better). I still have to upgrade my two laptops, but I'm going to wait until I'm completely happy with the other two machines. Best regards, -Tom