[PLUG] Guiding friends away from Windows

Richard Owlett rowlett at cloud85.net
Fri Mar 26 10:26:42 UTC 2021


On 03/26/2021 12:48 AM, Tom wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 11:37:38 -0700
> Ben Koenig <techkoenig at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Also note that Debian will probably require a significant amount of
>> extra work to make it function as a true replacement for Windows. If
>> you want to stay in the world of apt-get, go with one of the desktop
>> oriented derivatives.
> 
> Debian/Devuan is a fine desktop. Well, At least Devuan is. It comes by
> default with an XFCE environment instead of GNOME3. Also with
> LibreOffice and all the other tools. No systemd either.

I was intending to us Debian with MATE as that is what I use.
When I moved from Windows I found Gnome2 comfortable.
Gnome3 is a pain.
I'll have to check XFCE to see how comfortable that transition might be.







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