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Re: [LUG] Time to upgrade

 

On 25/10/12 18:30, Martin Gautier wrote:
> 
> On 25/10/12 17:56, Neil Winchurst wrote:
>> As for which distro to choose as the new one...!!! I have got it down to
>> four possibles, but for every good review there is one not so good.
> So which are the four in the running? ;)
> 
Since I like KDE and Xfce and hate Gnome with a passion the four are

Kubuntu, Mint KDE, Mint Xfce and Xubuntu

> I've rolled back my fresh Ubuntu 12.10 install due to it not supporting
> nVidia drivers properly yet (it defaults to nouveau in the hope that
> x-swat catch up and compile a set for the latest X they saddled 12.10
> with).
> 
> I must recommend Mint's Cinnamon desktop. I'm running it on my old
> Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with the Unity 2D Dash. It's very quick and pretty bug
> free (so far) - better than Unity & Gnome Shell which is slow on my
> system and very crashy.
> 

I have tried Cinnamon, via VBox and did not like it. It was all right
but I suppose I am too used to KDE and Xfce.

Thanks

Neil

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