Just use Arch. Rolling release, so no distro upgrades that break everything and force you to reinstall every time. It's not bundled with bloatware: you get a package manager and linux.
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Rik Tindall <[email protected]> wrote: >> is working well in liveDVD session.. >> >> But anything ('Unity') that removes the standard multi-desktop >> FOSS/Linux distro experience, ain't real GNU/Linux! >> >> Tests continue. >> >> Greetings. >> >> Six here at the monthly workshop > > > Seven showed up in all, one just to get the 12.04 LTS iso: no one had that > with them, but the broadband onsite works well enough usually. > > This post from a trusty 12.04 install - GNOME 'classic - no effects' option. > Will use it until there's something worth migrating to - probably Mint 17 > over 14.04. > > On the Unity 14.04 I struck a bug where System Monitor (and then an > installed Synaptic package) wouldn't display, though sidebar said they were > running. Was this because I had a 32-bit Ubuntu DVD, running on the i3 > quad-cores at the lab (that have 4GB RAM)? At home, on a Core2 Duo box, the > same DVD didn't produce that fault (3GB RAM). > > But I've tried a native install of this now, with Unity working as it wants > to. First try of the MATE 1.8 unsupported mod isn't nice though, generating > a boot error then having no panels or any control menus when it started. At > F2 the terminal font was tiny illegible but "reboot" got me back to work > eventually.. > > Will test the 64-bit 14.04 next. > > >> Regards >> >> Rik >> >> pp Freenix GNUz > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
