[ale] Survey - preferred Linux distro, desktop, and browser.

[askabt]

Ubuntu 
     - Maintained, well documented, and lots of packages.  Unity is no
good. Seems designed for phones, not desktops.

- XFCE
  _ GUI has to have a cpu graph on task-bar.  Conky gets covered by
windows. Miss the Gnome/Compiz eye candy of Ubuntu 10.10.
  _ Has to have menu, and ability to put icon shortcuts on task-bar.

- Firefox
  _ NoScript 
  _ Adblock 
  _ Stylish - For dark themes

Use Fedora pc next this above box for tv, alt media player, print
server, and toy servers.  Change the OS every year. It's a slower pc and
Ubuntu and Mint seemed a bit sluggish.  Fedora is flaky at times.




On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 23:37 +0000, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> We have quite a bit of discussion back and forth about various desktops, browsers, and distros, but I don't think we have done a survey of everyone's favorites.  
> 
> So...
> 
> What is your preferred desktop distribution?
> What is your preferred desktop/window manager?
> What is preferred browser?
> 
> For me:
> Preferred desktop distro:  OpenSUSE
> Preferred desktop/window manager:  XFCE.  I was a Gnome user up until 3.x.
> Preferred browser:  Firefox.  Now that Chrome is the only way to get updated Flash player on Linux, I have it installed, and I'm sure I will be forced to use it for certain things - at least until the remains of Flash are finally wiped from the earth :D
> 
> Oh, and I don't want to start an argument - just a discussion!  There are no wrong answers, just different answers.
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
> 
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