On 07/19/2015 07:52 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
If Win8 started up at the normal desktop (as it can be set to do now)
and then the Metro stuff is used just as the old;
Start button - All Programs
Then it's kinda ok - err after adding in new tiles for Kodi,
LibreOffice, Chrome/Firefox
Hi :)
Both Cinnamon and Mate (pronounced similarly to Latte) are both supposedly
drop in replacements for the Gnome DE that Ubuntu used to use.
They both started with the same code-base that everyone using a Gnome DE on
any distro was familiar with and then just upgraded it. VERY similar to
the
Hi :)
Err, i tend to stick with Unity for myself.
Some of my work-colleagues couldn't cope with the simplicity and the way it
doesn't look like Xp or Win7. So i had a quick look at KDE again and was
surprised at how fast it's become. It even out-performed Cinnamon and Mate
and even LXDE on many
On Sun, 19 Jul 2015, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Err, i tend to stick with Unity for myself.
Some of my work-colleagues couldn't cope with the simplicity and the way it
doesn't look like Xp or Win7. So i had a quick look at KDE again and was
surprised at how fast it's become. It even
Hi :)
If Win8 started up at the normal desktop (as it can be set to do now) and
then the Metro stuff is used just as the old;
Start button - All Programs
Then it's kinda ok - err after adding in new tiles for Kodi, LibreOffice,
Chrome/Firefox etc, removing quite a lot of the default useless ones
On 07/18/2015 11:28 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Something i really appreciate most about Linux is that it's so easy to
change the gui - or more importantly that if you don't like the crazy new
things that have been done to the gui then you can fairly easily go back to
the old one or on to
Hi :)
I think this mailing list is often quite helpful about wider issues than it
is meant for.
This mailing list has been quite supportive of people with questions about
various versions of Linux. I really like it when someone who has been a
huge help to others about technical issues in
Hi :)
Something i really appreciate most about Linux is that it's so easy to
change the gui - or more importantly that if you don't like the crazy new
things that have been done to the gui then you can fairly easily go back to
the old one or on to something else entirely. The under-laying system
Tom, you might want to take a look at Linux Mint (current version 17.2) ;
if you're using a desktop as your main box, I think you will find the GUI -
I personally prefer Cinnamon - far superior to Ubuntu's Unity (Cinnamon
can, of course, be installed on Ubuntu to replace Unity) and the OS is
2015-07-18 19:09 GMT+02:00 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com:
Hi :)
I think this mailing list is often quite helpful about wider issues than it
is meant for.
This mailing list has been quite supportive of people with questions about
various versions of Linux. I really like it when someone who
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