> DW> that can no longer be installed on new machines via apt. I recently
> DW> got a new system and tried to put Gnome on it, but the "classic/lite"
> DW> version it installed isn't what the laptop has. It was something
> DW> newer, so I went with a mix of LxQT and IceWM instead.
> Yup, I was a Gnome user LONG ago, in the Mandrake Linux days, if your
> memory goes that far back. Early 2000's. Loved it then.
I do. Mandrake was one of the first distros I tried and I found its installer
frustrating. It was the only graphic installer that would *perfectly* set
up my video settings during installation. It looked so good I was very,
very disappointed that the installer didn't set the desktop video settings
correctly. It always came out an unusable mess. :(
I wound up using Corel for a brief while (a debian fork, IIRC) before
moving to Libranet, another debian distro. The maintainer of that one
passed away, so I migrated to debian proper.
Before all that, I used a CLI only Slackware distro called, IIRC, Zipslack.
It ran "on top of" the DOS file system so you could play with it on a DOS
machine. It was more of a command-line learning experience but it was enough to
let me know I could handle migrating once the time came.
Regarding Gnome:
> You're right
> though, it went through (I think) 2 version upgrades and became
> something I could no longer use. Reminded me of a Fisher-Price baby
> toy. ;-)
YES! Honestly, to me, it looked like it was created for use on a touch
screen system which, since I don't use one, made it real frustrating to try
to use.
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