On Friday 16 March 2018 02:13:07 dep wrote: > so, to see if i could do it, i've flashed ubuntu 13.04 to a 2012 asus nexus > tablet. to my surprise, wifi and such work. *not* to my surprise, i hate > hate hate the ubuntu default desktop and want to replace it as soon as i > can. > > after some poking around (made more interesting by an onscreen keyboard > that comes and goes as it wishes, irrespective of whether text needs to be > entered, which is annoying when you don't need it and maddening when you > do), i got a terminal running and sought to install some of the > essentials. (by tradition, the first thing i install on a new linux system > is mc, because it is the best tool to get me out of whatever trouble i get > myself into.) and i discovered that all the repositories are now 404. am > hoping to find someplace where they are archived so as to severely edit my > sources list and get, among other things, tde. the corresponding debian > distro is raring. > > it does sort of run (though about half the stuff is canonical trying to > sell me music and stuff, which i think they've stopped doing anyway) but > without a decent desktop i can't imagine how i can put it through its > paces. and yes, the icons are tiny, beyond the fact that ubuntu touch > kinds sucks in general. in tde i can make the icons bigger. > > i'm hoping to justify the expenditure of time . . . and tun tde on a > tablet. 13.04 is 5 years old.... 18.04 beta doesn't work? (you might want to skip 16.04 at this point) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
