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On 10/01/13 13:07, Roland Tarver wrote:
On 09/01/13 21:59, Rob Beard wrote:On 09/01/13 19:52, Roland Tarver wrote:Before it died (after being sat on! lol) my netbook was mint 12 xfce, but i just installed lxde. So am I missing something here? What is the actual point of having, for example, 3 versions of mint? With each one defaulting to a particular desktop [ kde | xfce | lxde ] ? Asked another way what is the difference, apart from the desktop, between each version of mint? Cheers roly :-)Different desktop environments in Live images, saves downloading what you don't want. If I had to download a live image with XFCE, KDE and Mate I'd be a little fed up in downloading maybe another 500MB worth of ISO for something I don't want/need.Fair point. To my mind it just seems simpler if the mint folks include a "sensible" (however you define that) desktop and then you can install what you want when you get a network connection. A couple of problems i guess - some people perhaps never get a net connection; and, some folks wont know how to install a different DE (and perhaps not even no they have the choice....) hey ho....
It could be fairly simple, well if a network connection was available. Maybe start X and then start an installer and have the user choose what they want, or have it start say a lightweight DE or even just a Window Manager and have a simple program to let the users choose.
To be honest though, you could just download a Debian ISO or maybe OpenSUSE or Fedora and install it that way :-)
Maybe sometimes it's handy to have it all in one distro, but then I'd probably have an ISO for each (I generally keep a Mint 13 Mate 32-Bit and 64-Bit ISOs and a 32-Bit XFCE ISO). One of these days I'm going down download them all and burn a selection of DVDs and keep them in a nice DVD case (last time I did that I had a selection of every ISO image of Fedora, and CDs and DVDs burnt with Fedora for every architecture they did, all on fancy printed CDs... my god did I have too much time on my hands!).lol lol - You have kids! how did you ever have that much time on your hands! hahaha :-p
When they were at Grandparents, before I got faster internet access and decided to download ISOs generally as and when I need them.
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