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Thought I would play around with Linux Mint.

Is there a preferred desktop ?

Looking for a description of each to help make a decision.

Available a
Cinnamon
MATE
Xfce
KDE

RecentlyOrLately wrote:
Thought I would play around with Linux Mint.

Is there a preferred desktop ?

Looking for a description of each to help make a decision.

Available a
Cinnamon
MATE
Xfce
KDE

Cinnamon might be considered the flagship DE of Mint, as 'their baby'
forked from Gnome. MATE reflects the historic popularity of Gnome2
using more modern infrastructure and improvements. Xfce uses the least
resources in a clean popular DE chosen as the flagship of a number of
distros. KDE has the myriad features of KDE which is popular with many.

The first 3 have a common heritage and infrastructure of gtk and are
'integrated' by the Mint team. Because KDE has a different Qt
infrastructure, the next gen of Mint will not include KDE.

While you are playing around, seeing how the different DEs in a live
mode suit you personally is a good idea. There are ways of evaluating
all of the DEs; either by downloading each individually and putting them
on a multiboot USB, or by downloading an AIO Mint.

AIO has 64 & 32 bit .iso/s of all 4 DEs in a single .iso at
https://linuxaio.net/downloads/linux-aio-linux-mint/

The problem with AIO is that sometimes the torrents aren't well peered
and so may not be nearly as fast as the torrents accessed from the Mint
dl links. The other disadvantage is that AIO is Mint 18 instead of
18.3. And, you need to put 2 pieces back together.

The problem with dl/ing the individual .iso/s which are current at 18.3
and faster torrents is that of picking a strategy to put multiple live
..iso/s onto a single multiboot USB with such as Yumi in Windows or some
other in linux.

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Mike Easter

RecentlyOrLately wrote:
Thought I would play around with Linux Mint.

Is there a preferred desktop ?

Looking for a description of each to help make a decision.

Available a
Cinnamon
MATE
Xfce
KDE

The DEs can be loaded from the package manager. I had to use
an archived copy of this article, because the pictures in the
current website were damaged by our good friends at photobucket.

https://web.archive.org/web/20121015...rial/view/1079

But don't be surprised if there are side effects.
Like some package trying to bump some other package
out of the way. A good design, should allow all to be
loaded into the same tree.

Doing it via the package manager, means not having to
download four entire DVDs. When you can get the OS portion
plus one DE on say the MATE DVD, then add three DEs
via a meta-package in the package manager.

Depending on your tolerance for surprised, I'd select
something in Mint 17.1 to 17.3 range. I've had a little
trouble with networking on the 18 series of Mint, where
the DNS entry has some sort of issue. I can set DNS to
8.8.8.8, and fix it the first time, but maybe later attempts
still won't be working properly.

You can see the mirrors keep the older ones.

http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/linuxmint/stable/

For example:

Index of /linuxmint/stable/17.1/

linuxmint-17.1-cinnamon-32bit.iso 26-Nov-2014 23:52 1G
linuxmint-17.1-cinnamon-64bit.iso 26-Nov-2014 22:56 1G
linuxmint-17.1-kde-32bit.iso 05-Jan-2015 11:46 1G
linuxmint-17.1-kde-64bit.iso 05-Jan-2015 10:47 2G
linuxmint-17.1-mate-32bit.iso 26-Nov-2014 10:50 1G
linuxmint-17.1-mate-64bit.iso 26-Nov-2014 10:07 2G
linuxmint-17.1-xfce-32bit.iso 08-Jan-2015 09:06 1G
linuxmint-17.1-xfce-64bit.iso 07-Jan-2015 17:37 1G

The DVDs will be in the 1.4-1.5GB range, but the file
size display on the server is a little lacking in
significant digits.

Download one, install it, add three meta packages, and
when you reboot, look for a Session chooser, so you can
select which DE to run during that session.

There was at least one piece of media, that put all the
DEs right on the media. But in a quick search, I can't
find that right now. The above will keep you busy for
a while.

You could also look for a Youtube video of each, but
you know what the quality of Youtube publications is like.

Paul

RecentlyOrLately wrote:
Thought I would play around with Linux Mint.

Is there a preferred desktop ?

Looking for a description of each to help make a decision.

Some XP machines have limited resources. What is your CPU, graphics,
and ram?

Start/ Settings/ CP/ System - General tab and Hardware tab/Device
Manager - Display adapter

Also, there is a ng alt.os.linux.mint

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Mike Easter

On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:54:56 -0700, RecentlyOrLately
wrote:

Thought I would play around with Linux Mint.

Is there a preferred desktop ?

Looking for a description of each to help make a decision.

Available a
Cinnamon
MATE
Xfce
KDE

The most (visually) like XP ?
Probably Mate.
Though you can install more than one DE on the same machine.
HTH
[]'s
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On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:43:13 -0300, Shadow wrote:

On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:54:56 -0700, RecentlyOrLately
wrote:

Thought I would play around with Linux Mint.

Is there a preferred desktop ?

Looking for a description of each to help make a decision.

Available a
Cinnamon
MATE
Xfce
KDE

The most (visually) like XP ?
Probably Mate.
Though you can install more than one DE on the same machine.
Sorry, I meant on the same Linux Mint. At login you simply
choose which DE (Desktop Environment) you want.
HTH
[]'s
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We have a new policy - Google 2012

Il giorno Mon 19 Mar 2018 06:54:56p, *RecentlyOrLately* ha inviato su
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general il messaggio
. Vediamo cosa ha scritto:

MATE

works fine on my hardware :)

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On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:34:44 -0600, Unlisted
wrote:

On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:54:56 -0700, RecentlyOrLately
wrote:

Thought I would play around with Linux Mint.

Is there a preferred desktop ?

Looking for a description of each to help make a decision.

Available a
Cinnamon
MATE
Xfce
KDE

You got a lot of ****ing nerve asking about Linux on a Windows
newsgroup. No one on this newsgroup uses that linux garbage. We use a
REAL operating system on here. It's called WINDOWS.

What a Worthless ****** !!!! Anyone with a minimal level of
technical ability can (and should) dual boot, even if it's only to
scan the M$ partition for rootkits.

Welcome to the real world. Linux is the most used OS, has been
for a while. I'm not implying that's a good thing, Check your
"smartphone" (you're probably intellectually challenged enough to use
one) and look it up.

The reason Linux begins with the letter "L" is because it's for Losers!

And "W" is for ? (spoilers above)
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Robert Baer wrote:
RecentlyOrLately wrote:
Thought I would play around with Linux Mint.

Is there a preferred desktop ?

Looking for a description of each to help make a decision.

Available a
Cinnamon
MATE
Xfce
KDE
Am total newbie; a friend said to use MATE.

Or perhaps Cinnamon, last time I tried them.