[geeks] Distro recommendations

[Phil Stracchino]

N. Miller wrote:
> I start with Xubuntu on desktops for the quick, painless install and  
> it's (relative) light weight, and go from there by adding the  
> "regular" Debian repositories.  I was an fvwm2 maven as well until I  
> started using Xfce.  I suppose if you have up-to-date rc files for  
> fvwm, it'd be more of a no-brainer, but I didn't, so I took the path  
> of least resistance and stuck with Xfce.

I looked at xfce, but from what I can see of it, I really don't like it.
 If I had to use it, I'd probably end up disabling and/or replacing
every single feature that they list as reasons for using xfce.  I'm sure
it's very nice, if you want something that does what it does, but I don't.


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