[TriLUG] Anyone else able to get to cdimage.debian.org?

[Kevin Otte]

This is exactly why there are the Ubuntu flavors. I don't care for Unity 
either, so I switched to Xubuntu. XFCE is close enough to what GNOME 2 
was that I didn't have to significantly alter my workflows. And who can 
ignore that adorably cute mouse logo. :)

-- Kevin

On 01/12/2013 11:17 AM, Jeff Schornick wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Chris Knowles <cknowles2112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also, if anyone has a good general purpose desktop distribution they'd
>> recommend, I'm happy to hear it.  Only real requirement is that it be kept
>> relatively up to date, and relatively low maintenance, this is the distro
>> that I use to work on everything else, so it needs to be working.
>
> It sounds like you want Ubuntu.  =)
>
> No seriously.  I'm also not a fan of Unity either, even if I do
> foolishly give it a fair shot each and every new Ubuntu release.  That
> said, I don't see the point of ditching a well-supported distro just
> because you don't care for their vanilla desktop environment and/or
> window manager.  Canonical certainly makes some silly decisions, but
> thus far they don't seem to be making life intentionally onerous for
> folks wanting to break away from their defaults.
>
> Folks who know me well know I'm a fan of tiling window managers,
> especially if you're a heavy terminal user.  I generally use either i3
> or xmonad, but do so without giving up all of Ubuntu's other
> strengths.  You're employing the same basic strategy by test-driving
> Kubuntu, but if your beef is only with Unity, even that seems an
> unnecessary jump.
>
>    - Jeff
>