LM14 Xfce rules!

[Dänk 42Ø]

I had already installed the latest Linux Mint on my netbook and laptop,
but they are older models and Cinnamon was a bit sluggish, so I
installed Xfce.

While waiting for the LM14-Xfce proper edition, I discovered my dual-
core laptop was actually 64-bit (it came with 32-bit Wind**s, because
it didn't have enough RAM). It has plenty of RAM for 64-bit Linux, so
I re-installed and now the computer that was almost ready for the junk
heap totally rocks!

My transition to Linux was long and difficult, but I've finally freed
myself of everything Micros*ft. Filenames with invalid foreign
characters have been converted to UTF-8. All NTFS filesystems have
been purged and sent to Siberia. There are still some dissident text
files encoded in ISO-8859-x -- or even worse, CP850 -- but I am slowly
tracking them down and re-educating them to UTF-8.

Many thanks to Clem, and to that guy from Ubuntu and to everyone who
has contributed to the Debian family project!

[Tarzan©]

On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:17:18 +0000, Dänk 42Ø wrote:

> I had already installed the latest Linux Mint on my netbook and laptop,
> but they are older models and Cinnamon was a bit sluggish, so I
> installed Xfce.
>
> While waiting for the LM14-Xfce proper edition, I discovered my dual-
> core laptop was actually 64-bit (it came with 32-bit Wind**s, because it
> didn't have enough RAM). It has plenty of RAM for 64-bit Linux, so I
> re-installed and now the computer that was almost ready for the junk
> heap totally rocks!
>
> My transition to Linux was long and difficult, but I've finally freed
> myself of everything Micros*ft. Filenames with invalid foreign
> characters have been converted to UTF-8. All NTFS filesystems have been
> purged and sent to Siberia. There are still some dissident text files
> encoded in ISO-8859-x -- or even worse, CP850 -- but I am slowly
> tracking them down and re-educating them to UTF-8.
>
> Many thanks to Clem, and to that guy from Ubuntu and to everyone who has
> contributed to the Debian family project!



It does feel like you are breaking the shackles when you leave Win behind.
Now when I rarely boot into Windows I feel somewhat dirty......

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Linux Mint is not just for the eggheads I am proof of that
Registered Linux user 547626

[Eyetee]

On 12-12-24 09:44 PM, Tarzan© wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:17:18 +0000, Dänk 42Ø wrote:
>
>> <snip beautiful paean>
>
> It does feel like you are breaking the shackles when you leave Win behind.
> Now when I rarely boot into Windows I feel somewhat dirty......
>

I haven't booted into my Win partition in about two weeks. I even
cancelled my WoW account (which was the main reason I even had a Win
partition in the first place).

I'm forced to run Cinnamon, however, because the Xfce .iso hates my
hardware. (And, yes, I did run md5sum and used cdrecord from CLI with no
errors reported, so it's not a gimpy DVD).

Eyetee

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[Aragorn]

On Tuesday 25 December 2012 04:50, Eyetee conveyed the following to
alt.os.linux.mint...

> On 12-12-24 09:44 PM, Tarzan© wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:17:18 +0000, Dänk 42Ø wrote:
>>
>>> <snip beautiful paean>
>>
>> It does feel like you are breaking the shackles when you leave Win
>> behind. Now when I rarely boot into Windows I feel somewhat
>> dirty......
>
> I haven't booted into my Win partition in about two weeks. I even
> cancelled my WoW account (which was the main reason I even had a Win
> partition in the first place).
>
> I'm forced to run Cinnamon, however, because the Xfce .iso hates my
> hardware. (And, yes, I did run md5sum and used cdrecord from CLI with
> no errors reported, so it's not a gimpy DVD).

If you really want XFCE, then why not pull in the packages from the
repository?

You don't even have to remove Cinnamon from your hard disk, because
GNU/Linux perfectly supports multiple graphical user interfaces being
installed *and used* side by side, by the same user or by different
users.

It is after all a true multi-user operating system, people. ;-)

--
= Aragorn =
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

[John B.]

On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:44:07 -0600, Tarzan© <***@thejungle.com>
wrote:

>On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:17:18 +0000, Dänk 42Ø wrote:
>
>> I had already installed the latest Linux Mint on my netbook and laptop,
>> but they are older models and Cinnamon was a bit sluggish, so I
>> installed Xfce.
>>
>> While waiting for the LM14-Xfce proper edition, I discovered my dual-
>> core laptop was actually 64-bit (it came with 32-bit Wind**s, because it
>> didn't have enough RAM). It has plenty of RAM for 64-bit Linux, so I
>> re-installed and now the computer that was almost ready for the junk
>> heap totally rocks!
>>
>> My transition to Linux was long and difficult, but I've finally freed
>> myself of everything Micros*ft. Filenames with invalid foreign
>> characters have been converted to UTF-8. All NTFS filesystems have been
>> purged and sent to Siberia. There are still some dissident text files
>> encoded in ISO-8859-x -- or even worse, CP850 -- but I am slowly
>> tracking them down and re-educating them to UTF-8.
>>
>> Many thanks to Clem, and to that guy from Ubuntu and to everyone who has
>> contributed to the Debian family project!
>
>
>
>It does feel like you are breaking the shackles when you leave Win behind.
>Now when I rarely boot into Windows I feel somewhat dirty......


The problem is that there are still utilities that only run on Windows
so I keep a copy on at least one machine. My last "windows event" was
flashing the memory on my Samsung hand phone to a later Android
version. Only utility I could find that did that was (groan) a Windows
utility named Oden :-)
--
Cheers,
John B.