[TriLUG] Debian on a laptop

[Steve Litt]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:12:11 -0500
Dwain Sims <dsims at bayleafnc.org> wrote:

> I am running Linux Mint on my Toshiba 665D and it seems to be working
> pretty well.  I got sick of Ubuntu and Unity, 

I don't know why you got sick of Ubuntu itself, but for those of you
not liking unity, you never have to use it. Upon finishing a Ubuntu
install, Ctrl+Alt+F2 into a CLI terminal, and do the following:

sudo apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
sudo apt-get install lxde

Then restart X, go onto the little desktop changer and choose either
Xfce Session or LXDE, and bang, that's what you're in. Never a need to
even see Unity.

Anyone who doesn't like Ubuntu's reliance on sudo, fixing that is as
easy as:

sudo su -
passwd
visudo

In visudo, comment out the gratuitously generous sudo rights.

Ubuntu did a really stupid thing defaulting to Unity, but Unity is a
tiny and easily replaceable part of Ubuntu.

I've been using Xubuntu 12.10 lately, on my desktop and two of my
laptops, and I love it.

SteveT