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		pekk on Nov 11, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu? I felt that Mint's defaults were the problem rather than the solution, but personal tastes do vary. Is it really that hard to run 'sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop'? Am I missing something here?

jiggy2011 on Nov 12, 2011 [–]

xubuntu isn't really a perfect replacement for gnome2 for reasons I've mentioned elsewhere here.

After installing Ubuntu 11.10 I spent the best part of a day setting up my desktop and getting it to a stage with Xfce which I felt was 'only slightly more crap than my experience with 10.10'

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