Linux Mint with Mate has a severe bug in the desktop switcher.
     That is a feature that I use a lot. That rules out Linux Mint with Mate
     for me.

     I am looking at Fedora 17.

     Paul

   Hey Paul,

   Consider CentOS instead of Fedora.

   Fedora is a development environment where they try out new software and
   new concepts.  They issue a new release every six months and only
   support there releases for 18 months.

   CentOS is Red Hat Enterprise Linux with all the RHEL branding removed.
   It is supported for 10 years.  You won't find any experimental software
   or stupid stuff like touch screen interfaces for desktop applications.

     Mark LaPierre

   Does it have a desk top switcher?

   Paul Lamar


 Just to clarify, what do you mean by "desk top switcher"?

 Are you talking about this:
 http://img.nux.ro/3mM-el6gdm.png

 Where you can choose between multiple desktop environments or are you
 talking about switching between multiple virtual desktops like the
 screenshot.png attached where you can select any one of several virtual
 desktops inside the same desktop environment?


   Mark LaPierre

 Yes.

 Paul Lamar


I asked you to choose between two alternatives.  "Yes" is not a
meaningful answer.  I assume, from the attached picture, that you were
referring to switching between virtual desktops.

Anyway, CentOS supports both switching between multiple Desktop
Environments (DE) at login, and switching between multiple virtual
desktops once you have chosen a DE and logged in.

CentOS loads Gnome 2 by default with a fresh install.  You can install
KDE by doing a "yum groupinstall 'KDE Desktop'" in a terminal as root
user.  Having done that you will then have a choice of DE at login.

Mark LaPierre

Sorry :) Multiple virtual desktops. I did not know they were called that.
Have you ever set it up with more than 4?
Does the wireless work?

I want Gnome 2.x

Sounds good. What year was this cast in concrete and  do they fix the bugs
on a regular basis?

Paul Lamar

Which version mark?

6 6.1 6.2 6.3 or 6.0

http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/centos/


Paul Lamar

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