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ManamiVixen
March 31st, 2013, 08:56 PM
You have until May 9th to switch or get what you need done.
http://www.iloveubuntu.net/may-9th-2013-sees-end-life-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron-server-ubuntu-1004-lucid-lynx-desktop-and-ubuntu
JSeymour
April 1st, 2013, 01:32 PM
*hmph* Guess I'll be trying Mint sooner, rather than later, then.

Thanks for the heads up.

Jim
pinballwizard
April 1st, 2013, 02:08 PM
*hmph* Guess I'll be trying Mint sooner, rather than later, then.

Thanks for the heads up.

Jim

Cinnamon version?
JSeymour
April 1st, 2013, 02:31 PM
Cinnamon version?
Just signed-up over at their forums and starting research now. Was thinking Mate, as I'm not looking for a new desktop experience at this time.

Jim
craig10x
April 1st, 2013, 03:17 PM
stuck in the past i gather, eh, jseymour ;)
i think i saw you driving down my block the other day in your 1955 plymouth savoy :D

oh, well, as the old cliche goes: you can lead a horse to the water but you can't make him drink...

even cinnamon is too radical for you...wow...anyway, good luck with your linux mint mate....
prodigy_
April 1st, 2013, 03:47 PM
Mate
is great. As fast as Xfce and easier to configure. That's what Gnome should have become instead of an abomination it is now.

If by any chance anyone from the MATE team is reading this: you guys did a superb job! Kudos!
pinballwizard
April 3rd, 2013, 02:28 PM
is great. As fast as Xfce and easier to configure. That's what Gnome should have become instead of an abomination it is now.



Mmmmm... speed of Xfce and looks of Gnome? I'd be in heaven!
ibjsb4
April 3rd, 2013, 02:35 PM
The classic desktop isn't that bad :)
JSeymour
April 4th, 2013, 12:57 AM
Mmmmm... speed of Xfce and looks of Gnome? I'd be in heaven!
I've been messing with Mint 13 Mate, 32-bit, with the 686-pae kernel, for... I dunno... 3-4 hours--on and off. Haven't found anything to dislike, so far.

Jim
Metalpen1984
April 4th, 2013, 02:07 PM
Just signed-up over at their forums and starting research now. Was thinking Mate, as I'm not looking for a new desktop experience at this time.


I already do that for my HP laptop. I have to say among these DEs I've tried, KDE, GNOME3, Enlightment, Cinammon, Openbox, I like MATE the best. I confess that I am an old-style guy who really don't like the tablet concept of DE (Gnome3), therefore I choose to use MATE if I stick with Ubuntu12.04 LTS.

I don't know why but my working desktop is slow with KDE (openSuse), and my old ASUS laptop is no working fine with Enlightment but great with Openbox(Crunchbang). I will try installing MATE on my old laptop/Debian based distro.
pinballwizard
April 4th, 2013, 03:17 PM
I've been messing with Mint 13 Mate, 32-bit, with the 686-pae kernel, for... I dunno... 3-4 hours--on and off. Haven't found anything to dislike, so far.

Jim

Nice.

I'm gonna go download it. I'll get the 64bit version though.
JSeymour
April 4th, 2013, 03:47 PM
... therefore I choose to use MATE if I stick with Ubuntu12.04 LTS.
I tried that. It was Not Good, IME. Mate on Mint 13 was much nicer.


Nice.

I'm gonna go download it. I'll get the 64bit version though.
I did the 32-bit version because, when I asked over on the Mint forums, a respondent suggested it was six of one, half-dozen of the other, unless you needed Wine, in which case he recommended the 32-bit version. I need Wine for a particular, MS-Win-only vendor-supplied application :(, so 32-bit it was.

Jim
3rdalbum
April 4th, 2013, 03:52 PM
The trouble with people is that they don't always know what they're talking about.

32-bit Wine works fine on 64-bit Linux.
JSeymour
April 4th, 2013, 04:51 PM
The trouble with people is that they don't always know what they're talking about.

32-bit Wine works fine on 64-bit Linux.
I thought it might, but it seems to me I've more often seen people complaining of problems with 64-bit environments than 32-bit ones, so I took the easy way out :p

Jim
mJayk
April 4th, 2013, 05:24 PM
why not 12.04 LTS instead of mint ?
mJayk
April 4th, 2013, 06:49 PM
<snip>

Im pretty sure 12.04 comes in 32 bit, and cant you just install a desktop onto ubuntu ? i.e. gnome classic ? Maybe its just me but I dont see the difference / hype in mint
Elfy
April 4th, 2013, 07:04 PM
Let's keep this away from personal poking/jesting please.

Not everyone wants the same things - luckily there are plenty of choices.
mJayk
April 4th, 2013, 07:27 PM
but now my posts look crazy :p
codingman
April 5th, 2013, 02:49 AM
Looks like I'll be breaking some DVD's...
Algus
April 5th, 2013, 05:28 AM
Ahh, Hardy Heron, the first LTS that came out after I adopted Ubuntu. You were good to me.

What you guys are saying about MATE intrigues me but I'm absolutely in love with Xfce, not just for the speed but also how it looks. It will take a lot to ruin that love.
mikodo
April 5th, 2013, 06:11 AM
Ahh, Hardy Heron, the first LTS that came out after I adopted Ubuntu. You were good to me.

What you guys are saying about MATE intrigues me but I'm absolutely in love with Xfce, not just for the speed but also how it looks. It will take a lot to ruin that love.
All the same for me.

;p