[kwlug-disc] Which desktop?

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:59 AM, B.S. <bs27975 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>> So, larger community, more likely to get fixes and support, ...etc.
>
> Right, well ... maybe. Remember, the OP to which this is responding (firing
> up Skype, perhaps for a one or only a few off) (let alone being KDE users) -
> kde, which is essentially to say, qt based.

I like qt stuff much better than gtk. Gtk stuff looks awful on KDE.

You convinced me to consider lxqt instead of xfce.

But, this is still in the far future, not now.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/06/changes-planned-for-lubuntu-14-10

Even if it was out in 14.10, I have learned the lesson never to run
non-LTS releases on production machines (including my main desktop).


>> Not an urgent thing. Perhaps not before 2016 when the next LTS comes out.
>
> I don't think the next LTS coming out much bears. Ubuntu server, which is to
> say, the repositories that come with it, will probably always be your de
> rigeur system - for all the reasons you state. But, there is no desktop
> inherent to that - so such is a different question / debate / answer.
>
> Did come across these, which seems encouraging in the sense of this
> reasoning seeming likely to hold water.
>
> http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2013/12/install-lxqt-via-ppa-in-ubuntu-14-04-13-10/
>
> http://xpressubuntu.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/installing-the-lightweight-lxde-qt-desktop/
>
> Perhaps I'll even getting around to trying one of these with the next vm.
> Probably not long after Monday. (-:

You are too adventurous (again production machines and all that).

Let us know who it goes, and then by 16.04 we see how things evolved
and maybe switch then ...

> On 14-10-29 02:50 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:45 PM, B.S. <bs27975 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 14-10-29 12:54 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the heads up. I was considering Slackware as a possible
>>>> future option, but I will stick with KDE, or Xubuntu ...
>>>
>>>
>>> lxde (LXDE-Qt / Razor-qt) ? lubuntu? or to come lxqt variants?
>>
>>
>> Xubuntu seems to be more used than Lubuntu or even Kubuntu.
>> As per here
>>
>> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/10/ubuntu-10-years-user-survey-results
>>
>> So, larger community, more likely to get fixes and support, ...etc.
>>
>> Not an urgent thing. Perhaps not before 2016 when the next LTS comes out.
>>
>
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