On 06/10/14 21:11, Richard Owlett wrote: > I intend to set it up as multi-boot: > 1. whatever Windows is on it > 2. Squeeze LTS with Gnome2 - I like it and believe he will like its > human interface. > 3. Wheezy with KDE - Wheezy is more uptodate and I suspect would want > some KDE specific applications.
Have you had a look at XFCE? At my workplace I dusted off this old P4-era laptop and initially tried running Ubuntu 14.04 with the Unity desktop but found that, in their wisdom, Canonical had stripped Unity of its 2D mode and had LLVM trying to make up for the rather lacklustre (by today's standards) video card in the laptop. I installed XFCE in place and found the machine ran a lot better. The UI in XFCE probably isn't too dissimilar to what you might have seen in Gnome2, and might be a suitable alternative if Gnome 3 isn't your taste, and it saves having to manage two versions of Debian on the same machine. (I'm not sure if Gnome2 is available under Wheezy, I suspect not.) http://www.xfce.org/ Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54327f22.3060...@longlandclan.yi.org
