migration path suggestions?

[Mike McGinn]

On Thursday, March 15, 2012 14:01:33 Johnny wrote:
> On 03/15/2012 11:29 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> > On 03/15/2012 08:57 AM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> >> Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> >>>     Nah, no need to dump Ubuntu to get away from Unity. Choose
> >>> 
> >>> one: sudo apt-get install gnome
> >>> sudo apt-get install kde
> >>> sudo apt-get install lxde
> >>> sudo apt-get install lubuntu
> >>> sudo apt-get install xfce
> >> 
> >> More ideally, you'd do:
> >> 
> >> KDE - apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
> >> LXDE - apt-get install lubuntu-desktop
> >> XFCE - apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
> >> 
> >> Then you get the rest of the environments as well as just the DE or
> >> window manager - the set of apps that properly integrate into KDE,
> >> LXDE or XFCE in place of the Gnome ones.
> >> 
> >> Unity's got enough Gnome 3 in it that for Gnome-shell you just want to
> >> do apt-get install gnome-shell
> >> 
> >     True. For me, though, I wanted Unity gone. So after I installed
> > 
> > the gnome meta, I went through and yanked out all that I could of
> > Unity. Others may want one of those DEs without the Ubuntu
> > customizations added. That's where my suggestion came from.
> > 
> >     Either way, the usual answer is "it depends on what your end-game
> > 
> > is...", right?
> > 
> >     Next time, though, I may start with installing fresh from a
> > 
> > Lubuntu or Xubuntu disc, and add Gnome on top of that.
> 
> All are free so try them all if you want too. I have tried most all over
> time but Slackware. But I have always come back to Ubuntu usually in
> less than a week and sometimes a day. But the only way to known what you
> like is try. Just back up first.
> Good Luck and God Bless Johnny3 65++
I am running Lucid KDE on my laptop, and I have freeBSD 9 and  Ubuntu 11.10 in 
virtual machines  I am installing Debian 6.0 in a VM as I type this.  the VM 
is a great tool for trying stuff.


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