I am telling everyone what my experience is. For unknown reasons Ubuntu is getting slower and slower when you using it for a long time. Canonical change their vision of the things too often and from update to update the outcome is huge mess. I used to have Ubuntu installed and after almost 2 years of using it and updating it frequently it became too slow like when you use one desktop windows installation for too long time and after a year you have to reinstall it. I cleaned it up tried many things, but at the end it was still slow.
At some time I found the perfect desktop environment for me and this is Debian stable + Xfce. It rocks and it doesn't get slow never, it's secure, it's stable. For some software may have only outdated versions, but this has it's purpose! They just work stable and efficient. :) Once Johann Friedrich von Schiller said: Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. This I can say is the key point of Debian :)

Martin

On 11/27/2011 03:20 PM, Ian wrote: 
Duane said:


Looks like the ones producing Mint get it, they've made an extension for
gnome 3 to make it act like gnome 2

It's what I have on the home PC and there is lots to like about it,
but I have never been able to do an 'in place' distribution upgrade
without big problems in the way that I have always been able to do
with Ubuntu. For something with  six month upgrade schedule, that's
not really good enough.

So at some point tomorrow, I will be doing the 'backup the list of
what I have installed, install new system from scratch (/home is
obviously kept safe), reinstall the list of programs...'

Then looking at a couple of alternatives.

  Ian

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