[rescue] [geeks] Solaris being discontinued? Rumors flying

[Patrick Finnegan]

Have you looked at Devuan?  Debian, but with the systemd parts pulled out.

FWIW, I've used Ubuntu on my desktop for a while now (because it
actually supports the latest Nvidia drivers, makes it easy to install
non-FOSS software, isn't the flaming pile that RedHat produces, etc),
and put up with systemd (which I mostly ignore, but I am not happy
with), but have never touched Unity.  There are other working window
managers on it (Xfce is what I tend to use, since I started having
issues with KDE).

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 2:29 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>   Yup.  I found it to be very pretty, but I couldn't get any work done.
> Very annoying.  I ran it for about four hours and started looking for
> alternatives.  Mint was the way to go, and it still is, until they try
> to force systemd foolishness on me.  Then I'll find something else.
>
>               -Dave
>
> On 12/03/2016 09:59 PM, John Hudak wrote:
>> hi Dave:
>> Yes, that's it..TYVM!....a POS UI if I ever saw one...well, maybe a tie
>> between that and win 2.x and 3.x
>> Amazing, 30 yrs later and MS is still setting computing back to the stone
>> ages....
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/03/2016 06:31 PM, John Hudak wrote:
>>>> I hated Ubuntus klugey/inefficient UI that they touted as the 'next big
>>>> thing'...so bad, I cant remember what it was called.
>>>> When I experienced that, I went back to slack. - caveat, on my 86x
>>> machines.
>>>
>>>   "Unity".  Many people had the same reaction.  I moved to Mint, which
>>> I'm still running for desktop use.
>>>
>>>             -Dave
>>>
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