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I need to install a new Linux/Gnu OS soon. The present one, Linux Mint (Mate) Debian edition no longer fills my needs. I run 4 screens with 3 X sessions. Mate worked great for this, then an update broke it to one screen. I tried Cinnamon but it won't even start on multiple X sessions. XFCE works but with some serious drawbacks although that may be caused by my current system. Enlightenment actually worked well until it started crashing and I had to restore the settings file. When it finally crashed so nothing got it to run again I gave up on it.
I need a OS with multimedia support, the ability to install programs that may not be in the repositories ( Mythtv ), and multi X screen support. I am also looking for a file manager that has something like Gnome scripts. I have fair command line skills. I presently have Nvidia cards but I will go shopping if I have to. I might try Xinerama but I usually watch one screen while switching the other 2's desktops. Also not having a menu on all screens would be a pain.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by aristarchus on Tuesday November 26 2019, @09:17AM (3 children)
Yes, Debian will do that on occasion, since neither Deb nor Ian are involved in the distro any more, and god knows who is, outside the fact they approved the Nefarious and Diabolical SystemD!!!! TenanciousD was not all that bad, as a comedy rock band, but Systemd sucks the proverbial Donkey balls, and is to be avoided at all cost. I repeat, at alll costs. You may have to go Gentoo. So be it! Or Slack! So be that. Great thing about Free Software (Do NOT get me started on the scum-bag "Business Friendly" Bruce shit of "La Dee Da, Open Source") is that it grants you freedom. And as William Wallace once said, "They can take our lives, but they canna take, our, FREEDOM!!!" Scots for free software agree. Scots for "open source" software, well, they be down the Locks, weighted, you know.
"The problem is that a Debian update has changed something that prevents his system from working properly. " Seriously, janrinok, you are going to allow crap like this on the front page, and censor the aristarchus submissions? Oh, the Huge Manatee!! !
(Score: 4, Touché) by janrinok on Tuesday November 26 2019, @10:36AM (2 children)
I know that your comment was partly in jest but, just to clarify for any members of our community that are fairly recent arrivals, we have never censored your submissions.
They might not get selected because you do not follow the guidelines for submissions, but we can hardly be held responsible for that. Heaven knows we have tried often enough to help you.
They might be edited but - well, that is what editors are meant to do, so that submissions comply with our stated guidelines and the aims of this site.
But we have not, do not, and will not censor our community unless instructed to do so by the appropriate legal authorities who can present the necessary legal paperwork.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @12:43PM
That's a lie. No, make it too lyes, the one with "never censored" and the "members of our community that are fairly recent arrivals".
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Wednesday November 27 2019, @12:50AM
There is no "Official Secrets Act" in the Untied States, Jan! And it is only censorship is the government does it. What happens at SN is far, far more insidious. Kind of thing only a Mangy Buzzard could pull off.