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Re: [LUG] A windows user rescued.... new blog post - please cast your eyes over it...

 

On 09/01/13 16:11, Rob Beard wrote:
On 09/01/13 15:35, Neil Winchurst wrote:

By the way, meant to say.... I see that you have chosen the Xfce version
for your friend. Great, IMHO the best desktop for a new Linux user. I
have installed it for my daughter and my wife and they have had no
problems. I used to use KDE myself, for a long time, but I thought it
was unnecessarily bloated for their needs.

In fact, I have now installed Xubuntu on my desktop so we are all using
Xfce now. And I am very pleased with it.

Now to try to find some friends to convert .....!!

Neil



XFCE is growing on me, I was a bit disappointed that Mint seemed to stop doing the really lightweight LXDE version.

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 :-)

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