<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Paul Tarvydas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paultarvydas-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">paultarvydas@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I used Mandrake/Mandriva for many years, as a "safe" replacement for Windoze. A desktop for S/W development.<br>
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I dumped Mandriva over a year ago. I just couldn't handle the continuous drama and lack of business acumen.<br>
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I didn't find another KDE distro that looked serious.<br>
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Tried Debian and Ubuntu. Coming from a Mandriva mindset, they were utterly horrible. Just about everything was missing, wrt to a reasonable desktop environment.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I'm sorry, I just have to ask...what was missing? I used Debian for years and I can't remember ever missing anything. Do you mean Flash or something? </div>
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I'm now running Linux Mint (Cinnamon). Thunderbird & Firefox (& sometimes Chrome). It's quite usable (as a desktop replacement), has most of the stuff I want out of the box. A little less thrilling that Mandriva (but Mandriva is dead to me). (Ubuntu is Debian, Mint is Ubuntu with lots of stuff pre-installed). Kmail uses a different (more complex) format for mail than Thunderbird. Emacs + notmuch can recover and search the Kmail formatted stuff.<br>
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I had to learn about "apt-get", but it wasn't all that hard.<br>
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Apparently, it is "good enough", because I haven't searched for another distro for almost a year.<br>
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I will be most interested in your research for a suitable replacement...<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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