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On 07/11/12 09:08, tom wrote: > Yesterday my machine updated a few packages and now it wont even run > unity any-more. > I have three machines with 12.04 on and they are all borked one way or > another - mostly OpenGL is totally screwed (they're all Nvidia). > I normally use XFCE destop but occasionally drop into Unity to try and > sort out printing and fileshareing which has also gone completely tits > up as the 'upgrade' overwrote configs in a 'secure' way and then hid the > mechanism for fixing it in case it scares the user. > I have no idea what Unity was meant to achieve for someone who actually > uses a computer to compute and not just as an interface to the net but > its so badly screwed I'm going to completely get rid of it and move to > xubuntu unless anyone else is having similar problems with that. > Tom te tom te tom te tom > > I like Xfce, especially now that other popular distros, eg Ununtu, Kubuntu, Mint etc, are becoming so bloated. I have Mint Xfce set up on my wife's laptop and Xubuntu on the Daughter's. I need to replace the current distro on my desktop, Mint KDE, and I am seriously considering Xubuntu for that. (Hope to see you on 17th.) Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq