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I tried out Linux Mint Debian Edition a few months ago. It took hours to download the updates. :(
 
Linux user here. Most PCLinuxOS Gnome on several machines, and linux Mint 10on my netbook and 1 laptop. Most machines dual-boot with XP, but very rarely boot into it, except to make sure it's updated, usually once a month or so. Just did a base install of Ubuntu 10.04 on another laptop, and built it up with only the apps I use. Will be installing Debian 6 (Squeeze on another of the machines when i have some free time. Did it a few weeks ago, but power-supply blew, and can't be bothered right now.

Have used a variety of distros, but quite like Mandriva, Debian, and Fedora. Mostly prefer PCLinuxOS tho, has about every app I want, all in the same repo, and anything not there can be requested. Rolling-release works well, and excellent hardware and multi-media support.

I'm actually quite happy with Gnome in general, and wish the desktop devs would quit changing things for the sake of change. Gnome 3's GUI seems rather counter-intuitive, and more clicks are needed than before just to do simple tasks. I'm not a fan at this point, and won't be rushing to change to it.
 
If you want to learn the nuts and bolts, Slackware. Rock solid, it just flaming works.

Ubuntu if you want something which'll get you up and running quickly.

Haven't run Gnome in a long time, but I remember the hell of trying to download it and compile when it first came out.

KDE 4 is finally maturing into something fairly stable, though I don't generally use much of the bells and whistles.
 
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Xero said:
and wish the desktop devs would quit changing things for the sake of change.
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Hear, hear! All I want is something that works and looks ok. When they've got it already, why keep fiddling with it?
 
Alan said:
I tried out Linux Mint Debian Edition a few months ago. It took hours to download the updates. :(
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Took me maybe twenty more minutes for ~250 downloaded package updates. But I was still up and running with audio/video, flash... everything that took me several hours or so of fiddling with a vanilla Debian install.

I'm simply impressed at how well MLDE works. I've got maybe a dozen apps that I use and that's about it as far as my everyday work/play. It's stable, fast, and I can easily tweak it if I feel like.

Now I'm gonna make a few VM's of RHEL, Win7, Server08 so I can study for my certs.
 
I'm sure that it was my connection that contributed a lot to the speed.

I am learning commands. The terminal is pretty nifty!

You type in cal 2011 and it shows you the calendar for the year and this also works if you type in any year between 0 and 9999 AD. And if you just type cal, it shows you this month. Right there in the terminal! This is witchcraft.

Tee hee. man date.
 
Ubuntu on my Asus901 netbook as it's faster than Win XP.
On my desktop I still have Win 7 as it seems to work fine.
 
Fishstick said:
If man date goes well you can move on to man fsck and man pipe.
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man tail. If you swing this way, you have man ps, man cd, man strip, man time, man touch, man paste . If you need to get rid of the evidence, man kill. If you don't like what you see, there's man nohup.
 
roger said:
man tail. If you swing this way, you have man ps, man cd, man strip, man time, man touch, man paste . If you need to get rid of the evidence, man kill. If you don't like what you see, there's man nohup.
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You forgot about man mount.
 
I'm 7 minutes away from completing this Slackware download.

And I'll be trying out the new openSUSE tomorrow, of course.

How could I get the Me Menu and messaging menu from Ubuntu into other distros? I've done the Me Menu before but I can't remember how.
 
I didn't like OpenSUSE 11.4 very much... but I forget why. :(

I'm satisfied with Ubuntu 10.10. It's more comfy.

I'm thinking that I might even stick with 10.10 after 11.04 comes out but I'll see after some betas and the final come out. I'll probably upgrade and then switch between DEs on the login screen as desired.

What do people think of Unity's progress?
 
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