Re: [libreoffice-users] Linux alternative help&support

On Sun, 19 Jul 2015, Tom Davies wrote:

> Hi :)
> Err, i tend to stick with Unity for myself.
>
> Some of my work-colleagues couldn't cope with the simplicity and the way it
> doesn't look like Xp or Win7.  So i had a quick look at KDE again and was
> surprised at how fast it's become.  It even out-performed Cinnamon and Mate
> and even LXDE on many of our ancient machines AND it looked quite similar
> to Xp/Win7.  Quite a few people found it much easier to use.

people who liked kde3 might try an active development of it called 
Trinity Desktop <https://www.trinitydesktop.org/>; I favor a branch 
called exegnu <http://exegnulinux.net>; I think both make a 
livecd/usb.

it is debian-based and you may have to do a couple of things to get 
the wifi drivers for your system.

my only association with these projects is as a contented user. 
"mileage may vary."

f.

> So i've been using it myself quite a bit and found how to fix some of the
> inevitable teething problems in any 'new' system.  Any system needs a bit
> of tweaking in order to get it working the way anyone would be happy with
> so i've been finding a few of those out for myself.  However i really like
> Unity now [shrugs].  For me the big advantage of KDE is that now i can do
> more distro-hopping and try out many different distros while keeping a
> fairly familiar Gui/DE/Window-manager.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
> On 18 July 2015 at 22:59, Tom Williams <tomdkat@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > On 07/18/2015 11:28 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > > Hi :)
> > > Something i really appreciate most about Linux is that it's so easy to
> > > change the gui - or more importantly that if you don't like the crazy new
> > > things that have been done to the gui then you can fairly easily go back
> > to
> > > the old one or on to something else entirely.  The under-laying system
> > > remains the same.
> > "Back in the day", I used to have 3 or 4 window managers I used to
> > switch between.  lol
> >
> > As for Windows 8's metro, I mean "modern" UI, I'm not digging it and I
> > never have.
> >
> > "The other" Tom
> >
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