Grant, That is your computer telling you to roll back or install Fedora :-)
On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 1:00 PM Grant Mongardi <gmonga...@napc.com> wrote: > Well, it was in fact Debian Stretch that used Cinnamon as the default > desktop. That's sort of the point I was making. I don't know why you would > so dramatically change that experience. And GNOME in this particular > iteration is not very good at all, not even as good as older versions I've > used. Hell, the computer makes a horrible screech noise everytime I put a > USB stick in, something I've never experienced before. > > Thanks, > Grant M. > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:05 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Debian is a good Server distro and a good _base_ to build a desktop > distro. > > I would not consider it a desktop distro. > > > > Stock Debian with all defaults as a desktop? Unlikely to be enjoyable > > without a lot of customizing. > > > > I did use stock Debian as a desktop distro once, but it was on a DEC > ALPHA > > workstation that i was using as a compute node, not as my primary > desktop, > > so it didn't matter. (This was a long time ago, before 86_64/AMD64 were > > commodity.) > > > > And yes, much of the UX is switchable with window manager & desktop > choice. > > > > (The whole point of Mint and Cinnamon was that the stock desktop & window > > manager choices and defaults in Debian and Ubuntu were sufficiently > > annoying to someone to fork and do better.) > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > Discuss@lists.blu.org > > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > -- > > Grant Mongardi > *Senior Systems Engineer* > *NAPC inc* > p: 781-799-5340 > a: 444 Washington Street Suite #210, Woburn, MA 01801 > w: www.napc.com e: gmonga...@napc.com > <https://facebook.com/napcgroup> <https://twitter.com/NAPCgroup> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/205941/> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- -- Jerry Feldman <gaf.li...@gmail.com> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6B B6E7 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
