--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, wombat wrote:
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> It's only my own experience but I liked XUbuntu a lot on my netbook until I fiddled around one time too many and scragged it, so am currently installing Mint 13 xfce edition (I like xfce!) which seems to work out of the box . Much depends on your system and your personal preferences.
> The Wombat
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> Charles Doubek wrote:
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Mint and XFCE are good stuff. I still don't understand why distributions put out Desktop Environment editions though. You can change those anytime you like. The classic way is to simply edit your ~/.xinitrc file. A long time ago Window Managers came with menu options where you could change on the fly. Which was pretty neat, because after you selected a Window Manager off the menu you'd switch, but retain whatever applications you happened to be running at the time. Your X Window session wouldn't even restart. I think that trick was accomplished by making another application the parent process instead of the Window Manager.
Now folks seem to think you need to do a new installation to change? The most you should ever have to do in order to switch is start a new X session.
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