On Wednesday 08 May 2019 11:19:17 Michael wrote: > On Wednesday 08 May 2019 02:14:07 am William Morder via trinity-users wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 May 2019 19:16:59 Felix Miata wrote: > > > Michael composed on 2019-05-07 11:48 (UTC-0500): > > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > > > > > I don't do USB except for occasional rescues. My interest isn't so much > > > in what the hardware can support as a desktop he and I and POTS can > > > work with, with an emphasis on minimal effort from me when he needs > > > help. > > > > > > AFAICT, MX is XFCE-focused. I don't like XFCE (or Gnome, the reason why > > > I jumped on KDE1 when I discovered it), or that it's built on a gtk3 > > > foundation, which may be why. > > Hi Felix, > > I have to agree with Bill, kudos to you for helping this person out! I’ve > dealt with people who’ve had head injuries and you’re never sure where they > are capable. Worse some of them never seem to know if they’ve actually > told you a), b), or c) so tell you them multiple time. Or they think they > told you all three and have really only told you b). Highly frustrating > from both sides. :( > > On MX, yes I think it does default install XFCE, but you don’t have to use > it, nor do you need anything Gnome. I don’t, I use TDE with it. I brought > it up as MX does have a lot of MX built tools that would make your > install/setup life easier. > > Since you’re going with TDE as the interface (guessing), per Bill’s > installation vs. stability, I’d say MX is in the middle for installation. > MX is a no-systemd Debian stable so I believe people would score that high > on stability? I forgot to mention AntiX, which is in that MX family, also no-systemd, etc. I did like a lot about that system, and if I were using just a laptop, or similar setup, I might choose it again; however, it couldn't manage to recognize my internal hard drives (aside from sda1) on the initial installation, so I went back to Devuan. (I like to give all my hard drives special mount points, so that my reference points remain the same, even if they get unmounted and remounted.) While I could do this manually, after installation, it would be a real bother. AntiX also works well with TDE. > > The USB was to just try it, it does install to the hard drive. > > I’ll guess you’ve already thought of trying an Ubuntu LTS? I’d surmise > that the 16.04 LTS would be basically feature locked by now and would give > you until 2024 until you’d need to look at it again. > > Hope that helps, > Michael > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
