I can say a word about my journey through Linux distributions and DEs. The main reason why I came to Linux was LinuxCNC. I started from Ubuntu 10 x86 as such image was offered by LinuxCNC. And I made myself comfortable with it including for casual tasks.
Later on I moved to Debian Wheezy x86 with xfce together with new image from LinuxCNC. It was not easy, I felt not so comfortable, but adapted myself and xfce to my needs. Now I am using Debian Jessie amd64 with KDE Plasma. And I am very happy with it. It runs LinuxCNC with SMP PREEMPT RT kernel on a laptop! And a lot more happier when I found how to: set Desktop to be "as usual" Activities / Create activity / templates / Desktop icons set Meta (aka MS Start) key for kickoff menu by using ksuperkey set various custom shortcut keys use some great apps like Krusader, Kate (one session per config), ... 02/02/2016 03:18 PM, John Thornton rašė: > Well Linux Mint with Mate is a much better behaved desktop. Having said > that and I think I tried Debian with Mate with poor results. I'll have > to dig through my pile of disks to see... maybe not, the only one I > tried is the net install which only offers gnome, kde, lxde and xfce. > > JT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
