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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 1:46 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> This isn't a Gentoo question but most everyone here used something |
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> before Gentoo. I need a simple to upgrade distro for someone else. |
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> A friend of mine had windoze XP, which is dead to M$. She needed |
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> something and buying a computer or new OS is not a option, even tho she |
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> needs to upgrade that 10 or 12 year old thing she has. So, I put Mageia |
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> on it a couple years ago, used to be Mandrake way back which is what I |
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> started with. She has been doing updates every week or so since it is |
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> GUI based and pretty easy. Tell it to update or just click the pop-up |
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> when it tells you one is available and when it is done, reboot. Yea, |
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> windowish I know. lol Anyway, she did a update and now she can't login |
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> to KDE. I drove up, hour away, and tried to figure it out. It has |
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> changed so much, I'm pretty clueless. It is NOT Gentoo by any means. I |
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> renamed the user directory in case it was a config that the new update |
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> was hanging on but nothing. It just won't let you login. Also reset |
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> the password as well. Thing is, I installed ICEwm during the install |
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> and it works. It logs in but the screen doesn't refresh like it |
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> should. You close a app, it's closed but it doesn't refresh the screen |
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> so it looks like it is still there. The whole thing is weird. Since I |
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> couldn't figure out what the problem was, I tried upgrading to Mageia |
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> 6. Figured if it was a software bug, maybe that would fix it. Nope. |
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> So, she's using ICEwm for the moment but it is weird. |
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> What I'm looking for. Something that I can install fairly quickly from |
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> a DVD. Rig is to old to boot from USB stick. Something with a GUI |
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> update process that is fairly easy. Uses either KDE by default or is |
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> easily installable, hopefully during install by default. The big one, |
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> needs to be able to run on older hardware. Her rig is something like a |
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> 2GHz single core CPU and around 2GBs of ram. The drives are SATA but |
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> that's about the most advanced hardware it has. The video is a built in |
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> Intel of some sort. Nothing fast or even fancy for that matter. Yes, |
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> I'm keeping a eye out for a newer rig but it is what it is right now. |
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> I've used Gentoo for so long, I don't know what other distros offer |
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> nowadays. I figure that there are several distros that are graphical |
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> nowadays but also need good support for older hardware and easy update |
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> process. Googling around isn't helping me much. If I find something I |
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> like, no KDE. If I find KDE based and a GUI updater, something else |
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> won't work. I figure asking those who have personal experience would be |
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> best. :-) |
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> Thoughts? Suggestions?? |
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I second the suggestion to try Xubuntu, though you should also look at |
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Lubuntu (which uses LXDE). Sticking to Ubuntu based distributions |
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might be a good idea because there is a large userbase that has easy |
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to search for answers to common problems. |
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Plasma 5 might load her hardware too much. Is MATE unsuitable? You can |
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also look for even lighter weight window managers and install them on |
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top of the default desktop environment, but most of them target power |
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users. |
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/window_manager#List_of_window_managers |
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