[TriLUG] Laptop Question

[Wes Garrison via TriLUG]

I agree with John.

If you like Ubuntu, install either Ubuntu or Debian Testing and run the
XFCE or Mate (pronounced "mahtay") desktop.  Both are based on Gnome2, and
are very light on resources.  Another bonus (for me anyway) is that both
seem to share almost all of their keyboard shortcuts with Windows, so if
you're a keyboard user the learning curve is pretty low.

I prefer Debian and Mate, but Ubuntu and XFCE are also perfectly good.
Lots of people really like Linux Mint, but others feel that it is an unholy
bastard hybrid of Ubuntu, Debian, and other Frankenstein bits of software.

It's nothing you can't get by enabling Universe and Multiverse on Ubuntu or
contrib and non-free on Debian and installing some firmware blobs.


On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:08 PM John Mitchell via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

>    I keep GParted on a thumb or CD to check any disk I plan to use.
> It lets me see all the partitions on the old drive and delete them first.
> You can format the drive but I prefer to let the OS of choice
> do that.
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
>    If you find Ubuntu(Gnome) to be a bit slow you may want to look at the
> XFCE4 version;
>  https://xubuntu.org/
> john mitchell
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:00 AM Z-man via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
>
> "...I have a old Lenovo G530 that I want to wipe clean ..."
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