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From: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com
Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote:
-binary based
You just ruled out Funtoo.
FYI, Funtoo (and Gentoo, as I understand it) can be set to
automatically create packages when software is compiled. So
you can have a
On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 11:35 PM, T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/09/2015 08:14 PM, Isaac Dunham wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for a Linux distro that I could recommend to friends who are
rather frustrated with Windows 10.
The friends in question ask me about how to fix
-DE familiar to Windows users (if Trinity were more active, I'd go with
that without hesitation; but I suspect properly configured Xfce or Mate
may be better at this point.)
Trinity is quite active and the next release is under it's way :-)
Nik
--
Please do not email me anything that
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 18:39:07 -1000
Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote:
Isaac Dunham wrote:
LXDE is close to the classic interface, but so is IceWM (my own
first pick for window manager.)
I like IceWM, because it's so easy to configure menus. I set up
some menus for my dad, that he's been
On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 09:44:11PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 18:14:10 -0700
Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for a Linux distro that I could recommend to friends who
are rather frustrated with Windows 10.
The friends in question ask me about
On 08/09/2015 08:14 PM, Isaac Dunham wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for a Linux distro that I could recommend to friends who are
rather frustrated with Windows 10.
The friends in question ask me about how to fix problems with their
computers from time to time.
With the greatest respect, Isaac, by
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 18:14:10 -0700
Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for a Linux distro that I could recommend to friends who
are rather frustrated with Windows 10.
The friends in question ask me about how to fix problems with their
computers from time to time.
The
Isaac Dunham wrote:
LXDE is close to the classic interface, but so is IceWM (my own first
pick for window manager.)
I like IceWM, because it's so easy to configure menus. I set up
some menus for my dad, that he's been using unchanged
for a decade.
The biggest problem was setting a larger
Morning Isaac,
Hello,
I'm looking for a Linux distro that I could recommend to friends who are
rather frustrated with Windows 10.
The friends in question ask me about how to fix problems with their
computers from time to time.
The essentials would be:
-has a *good* Windows migration
