On 30/06/12 12:29, john lewis wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanx John
If I can't warm to Unity, I might well hafta go Debian
Is there a HOW TO for installing it on a Mac ?
It was mighty fiddly getting Ubuntu to dual-boot with OS-X on the Mac
Thanx again,
Lesz
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