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Re: How exactly do I create a Debian live USB?

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On Monday, October 11, 2021 09:20:25 AM kaye n wrote:
> So that's the issue.
> What desktop environment would you guys recommend for a desktop computer
> with these specs?
> 
> CPU:
>   Dual Core: Intel Core2 Duo E8400 type: MCP speed: 1998 MHz
>   min/max: 670/10166 MHz
> Graphics:
>   Device-1: Intel 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
>   Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel
>   unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
>   OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945G v: 1.4 Mesa 18.3.6
> 
> Do I choose xfce, kde, mate, etc. ?

I'll give you my perspective:

Back in the day (ca. 2000), after some testing, I chose to use kde instead of 
gnome (and I don't remember what other alternatives I tried).  Everything in 
gnome seemed hard to see -- fuzzy and dark (just my impression).  Kde seemed 
easy to see, not fuzzy, and nice and bright.  (Of course some of that depends 
on the theme chosen.)

I eventually adopted kmail as my favorite email client.  (That remains true up 
through at least Debian Wheezy, in other words, when the primary means of 
email storage is via mbox.  Later versions of kmail apparently use a database 
(don't remember the name) and I hear about problems with that.)  So I wouild 
like to stick to a version of kde which uses a version of kmail which uses 
mbox for storage.

There is a distribution (again, can't remember the name (it is a bitch getting 
old) -- Gene Heskett may chime in to remind me, that is basically based on, 
well, I'll call it a fork of kde3, which still uses the kmail that uses mbox 
for storage.  When I retire my Wheezy system, I'll probably but that OS on 
that box.

Somewhere in there, kde came up with an approach for inter-application 
communication -- I forget the name they had for it, but nowadays it has been 
adopted by other Linux OSs and is named "dbus".   I used it for a few things 
back in the day, but don't explicitly use it anymore (it may be used "behind 
the scenes" so that I am not aware of it).

So, I will, for a long time, have a prejudice towards using an OS that uses 
kde as the desktop, including a (perhaps an older) version of kmail, and one 
that also includes or allows the use of dbus.  Perhaps all desktops do that 
now.

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How exactly do I create a Debian live USB? kaye n <guikaye@gmail.com> - 2021-10-11 12:40 +0200
  Re: How exactly do I create a Debian live USB? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-10-11 13:00 +0200
    Re: How exactly do I create a Debian live USB? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-11 13:20 +0200
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        Re: How exactly do I create a Debian live USB? David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2021-10-11 14:00 +0200
    Re: How exactly do I create a Debian live USB? kaye n <guikaye@gmail.com> - 2021-10-11 13:50 +0200
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        Re: How exactly do I create a Debian live USB? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-11 14:50 +0200
          Re: How exactly do I create a Debian live USB? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-11 15:00 +0200
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            Re: How exactly do I create a Debian live USB? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-10-11 16:10 +0200
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            Re: How exactly do I create a Debian live USB? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-11 18:30 +0200
              Re: How exactly do I create a Debian live USB? kaye n <guikaye@gmail.com> - 2021-10-12 00:10 +0200
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