Ubuntu Hour - Toronto

[Aruna Hewapathirane]

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> Hi Aruna
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> I understand the sentimental idea. I have friends on this list that love
> Centos as much as I love Ubuntu. Yes, it is mostly based on what we start
> of with. We all put so much time into learning that first version. Yes, I
> loved the gnome2 as well. But I am sure the latest will get better. All OS
> do eventually improve.
>

You hit the nail right on the head my dear that is exactly it,  the time we
put into familiarising ourselves with that first distro that is it :-)

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> I will have to check out Awesome as soon as I can. I was not aware of that
> one ontil now. Thanks!
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Once Awesome is installed and booted you will see an empty desktop and I
mean EMPTY as in no nuthin which can spook one, it sure spooked me. Right
click anywhere on the desktop and you will be on your way, good luck and it
IS fast and lightweight !

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> Abby
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: Aruna Hewapathirane
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> Sent: 12/06/13 01:31 AM
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> To: Toronto Linux User's Group
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> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Ubuntu Hour - Toronto
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> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Abby Bassie-Cripps <maxcess-KK0ffGbhmjU at public.gmane.org>wrote:
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>> You don't have to have the Unity at all, install a deferent one all
>> together. Eg Cinnamon or a choice of many others.
>> We do not need to use a windows wanna be look alike. I got rid of my
>> Unity, but still have ubuntu 12.04.
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> Abby, I have Cinnaman, KDE, LXDE, Xfce,  and am testing and exploring
> Awesome <http://awesome.naquadah.org/> which is really good the way it
> tiles and stacks the windows but I guess it must be sentimental since I cut
> my teeth on Karmic I still feel very attached to that classic gnome2.
> Guess I will compile my own kernel like Jamon suggested one of these days
> with exactly what I need and want then no more komplaints :-)
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