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Originally Posted by arjaybe
I get the impression that people are sticking with W7 until W10 comes out. (what happened to 9?) Kind of like they skipped from XP to 7. But that's just outside looking in.
I'm a KDE guy, but I've had a look at a lot of the others. I like xfce for a lighter desktop. That's what's on Gregg's xubuntu, isn't it? A good choice for a beginner.-) It's what my current OS came with, but I installed KDE for its comfortable familiarity. Nice to be able to do that, isn't it?
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KDE was my first choice -- then I moved to Gnome when KDE had their first "big" change. But I've heard good things about the newest versions of KDE, it's actually much "lighter" than Gnome. By now though, I've been using Gnome 2 (Mate) for so long I'm pretty much invested in it. I used to like to experiment quite a bit -- but now I'm at the age where I just want to use my computer.
And Xubuntu is based on Xfce. I liked Xfce but -- at least on Vector Linux -- it was more work to keep updated and configure than was Mate. Vector Linux was also Slackware based so didn't have the Ubuntu repositories and I got to the point where I just wanted something simple -- basically click and point.