One of the advantages of Mint/Cinnamon is that most of the time, the normal laptop functionality stuff 'just works'. Hibernation, sleeping while on battery, what-happens-when-i-close-the-lid, media keys, all that jazz. I use XFCE on my desktop and love it, but getting all that shit to work is a PITA.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Cameron Kilgore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ghostfreeman@gmail.com" target="_blank">ghostfreeman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I used unity for the better part of 10 minutes and went back to Xfce.<br>
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On May 15, 2012, at 1:16 PM, William Bagwell <<a href="mailto:rb211@tds.net">rb211@tds.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tuesday 15 May 2012, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:<br>
>> snip (21 point rant)<br>
>> Any help and advice is appreciated.<br>
><br>
> Can offer nothing more than condolances. What you so eloquently describe<br>
> mirrors my brief experience with KDE 4.X and explains why I am still<br>
> using a *four year old* distro as my daily desktop.<br>
><br>
> Waiting for some kind soul to port Trinity to Mandriva so I can upgrade...<br>
> --<br>
> William<br>
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