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as if we need another !ubuntu spin, i'm seriously considering making a pure !gnome 3 and/or classic panels !linux spin. opinions?
Friday, 08-Apr-11 01:48:59 UTC from xmpp- Kyriakos likes this.
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@hrhnick as is, as soon as I was sure 3 worked (no falling back to 2) I removed 2 from the gdm choices :)
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@hrhnick someone already did that and called it debian unstable.
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@buffalopete i had major issues trying out debian unstable :-/ plus i couldn't get ubuntu based ppas to work correctly.
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@hrhnick surely not re: ppas, but if there are certain pkgs you need, debs are often out there. what else has been going wrong? ...
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@hrhnick disclaimer: i'm not on debian, i use arch, but i know debian decently well.
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@buffalopete i havent used it in about 6 months, i've been using fedora :-) i jus prefer dpkg
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@hrhnick i like dpkg for the "set it and forget it" ease, which is why i've got debian on the server. actually for the desktop...
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@hrhnick i've really come to like the simplicity/extensibility of pacman. it lacks a good gui frontend, but it's awesome on the cli.
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@hrhnick why not. diversity is the new focus on the main product ;-)
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@buffalopete the arch installer is a bit scary -____-
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@bdesmet thanks for the support :-)
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@hrhnick I wouldn't call it support, but as a former fedora spins wranger, how can I say no? ;-)
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@hrhnick not as scary as you think, it just looks that way. partitioning's a little more involved than you're used to, and you've gotta...
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@hrhnick be prepared to reboot to bash and build it yourself, to a point. the documentation's really good though. and having a rolling...
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@bdesmet wrangler that is
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@hrhnick distro takes so much of the headache out of administration. dist-upgrade always sucks.
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@e2jk started almost right after i posted that dent :-) https://launchpad.net/ubuntugnome
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