What Does Your Desktop Look Like? | Linux Today

What Does Your Desktop Look Like?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 4, 2010

“After my fourth desktop installation in as many days, I
suddenly realized a couple of things. One: I like trying out new
distributions, and two: I noted how uncluttered my preferred
interface is. See below.

“Driven by an urge to move out of my old, stale (to me, anyhow:
I’ve been using KDE for years) KDE desktop environment, I went on
an install binge, successively slapping Ubuntu Netbook Edition
10.04 (UNE), plain ol’ Ubuntu 10.04, and Linux Mint 9 onto
unsuspecting hardware that I had laying around. Yes, I know these
are all Debian-based distros. I’ve served my RPM time with
Mandrake/Mandriva, RHEL, CENTOS, and Fedora. It’s Debian-based
distros for me from now on, if I have a choice.

“The install sequence went something like this:”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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