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Author: john lewis
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Unity on Ubuntu 12.04 v. old Gnome/KDE on 10.04.x
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:37:06 +0100
Alan Pope <alan.pope@???> wrote:

> On 30/06/12 11:09, Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote:
> > On 10.04.x, you can access every single app cumulatively installed,
> > ever so easily
> >
>
> In 12.04 it's very search-oriented. Press the "Ubuntu button" then
> click the second lens along (Applications Lens) or just tap the
> "Windows (super) key" + A and then start typing what you're after.
> Way more efficient than squirrelling through menus IMO.


> You could try other derivatives like Linux Mint with Cinnamon or
> Mate, but I would question the sustainability of those desktops.
>
> > When you install KDE, LXDE, XFCE desktops, they take on a kind of
> > Unity cut-down format ..
> >
>
> I hear Debian is quite nice :)


Debian is more than Nice ;-)

Install it and never have to re-install your OS again and (for now at
least and hopefully always) you can use Gnome Classic, chosen at login

Wheezy has just been frozen but it will be a few months before it is
released as the next stable version.

Install Debian Unstable instead if you need more recent packages than
are in current Debian Stable.

It isn't all that problematic to use but does need regular doses of
"aptitude update, aptitude safe-upgrade" I do it daily.

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John Lewis
Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server

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