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Re: Help with a distro of Linux

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azigni wrote:
> I distro hopped for over a decade, and one day realized Linux is Linux.
> You are correct it all happens in the desktop. The rest is how the
> distribution chooses to package and manage the programs.

Distro hopping is better than ever for the purpose of seeing lots of 
different looks and ways to do things.  That helps one to decide how 
they might want to tweak their installed distro.

(And/But) It is easier to do the hopping than to do some of the tweaking 
which has been discovered.

I was recently pleased to see how strongly Ub had embraced Mate by 
making it one of the flavors and with the Ub Mate Welcome function which 
boots on the live and also facilitates installation of some apps after 
the install.

I tend to think of Mate's and Cinnamon's popularity as arising 
significantly from Mint's embrace, but Ub is also doing a good job with 
Mate now.

Cinnamon, not as much.  If one wants to Cinnamon 3 Ub, they need to do 
it with .ppa, not the repos.  So, I think Cinnamon is no where near 
being an official Ub flavor like Mate.

I would assume that is because there are already two Ub flavors from 
Gnome3, Unity and Gnome.

-- 
Mike Easter

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