<div dir="auto">Thanks Bob!! It will be good to see you again!!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 23, 2018 3:22 PM, "Bob Jonkman" <<a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
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I was an Ubuntu user (with the old Gnome2 desktop, or the Gnome<br>
Fallback desktop) until about 2013, switched to Mint Debian Edition<br>
2013 because it promised to be a rolling release (no 6 month upgrades,<br>
just continuously up-to-date). This got me hooked on Mate, the<br>
replacement for Gnome2. But come 2014 the Mint people decided that<br>
Debian Edition would need upgrades after all, so I went back to Ubuntu<br>
LTS releases, still with the Mate desktop. I'm now transitioning to<br>
Debian Testing on desktops/laptops, and Debian Stable on servers, in<br>
the hope of getting back the equivalent of rolling releases.<br>
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I used to run SuSE servers for work, but only briefly experimented<br>
with that for a desktop solution. The dpkg packaging system is much<br>
better than YAST, Rug, RedCarpet, and whatever else SuSE was using.<br>
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Haven't experimented with Fedora/Red Hat except on VMs.<br>
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- --Bob, who's looking forward to James's installation presentation.<br>
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On 2018-01-23 12:02 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br>
> I never jumped on the Mint bandwagon for a simple reason: I want my<br>
> servers and my desktops to be from the same set of repositories.<br>
> Since Ubuntu is offered by most hosting companies (dedicated and<br>
> virtual), that is what I use on the desktop. Not many (if at all)<br>
> offer Mint for servers.<br>
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> I did move from KDE to XFCE about a year ago after I moved from<br>
> 14.04 to 16.04 and found it lacking a few things that I was used to<br>
> (working weather widget, removing options, such as notification<br>
> history). So I moved to XFCE after a decade with KDE. Don't miss it<br>
> really.<br>
><br>
> As for interim releases, I have learned my lesson and never ever<br>
> bother with interim releases. Only LTS releases (12.04, 14.04,<br>
> 16.04) for me. And I move from one to the next after they have been<br>
> out for many months do I bother upgrading to them. Two or so point<br>
> releases. Let others be the guinea pigs. I stick with stable stuff.<br>
> Less drama ...<br>
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