Debain squeeze as a desktop

deano · 30 May 2011 at 17:34

Hi,

does anyone here use Debian as there main desktop of choice...as opposed to *untu...?

Looking at moving away from SuSE, used it from version 7.3 upto somewhere is in the 9's. thought i'd give 11.4 a go and finding it a bit clunky.

TIA

deano · 30 May 2011 at 18:02

testing was the other thought...probably more stable than ubuntu 11.04

does much break on it when upgrading?

deano · 30 May 2011 at 18:36

ok thanks

deano · 2 Jun 2011 at 21:56

thanks for the updates guys.

I came across crunchbang Linux the other day which is now based on debian with there own apt repo for update drivers and kernel and there own stuff.

Have tried it out in virtualbox and seems a very good distro and appears to be extremely configurable. that conky thing is rather good

openbox is no gnome but that may not be such a good thing

Think i'll load it on a spare laptop and see how I get on and then if all is well reload my main laptop.

deano · 5 Jun 2011 at 16:10

Sid is a possibility although i'm quite enjoying getting use to crunch bang now

will give sid a go in a week or so.
thanks