Debian: A noob query

[LinuxIsOne]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

Me, personally, I would say a firm NO; I think Unity is less fiddly,
> simpler and more approachable.
>

Okay, but just as a matter of interest and curiosity, I would like to ask
if Unity is even easier than XFCE? I saw xfce desktop (with live CD) and it
was easy....However, I would have to download live CDs to see for Unity and
Gnome and I would do that.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org> wrote:

This graph clearly shows a spike in xfce in the past month; while lxde
> is generally growing in use it has not had a similar sharp spike.
>

This graph really shows much of the things, I was to ask!

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

The down side is that they have the pain of the learning curve on the
> Classic i/f and no sooner have they got the hang of it than they have
> to move to something different.


Learning is required in everything, I guess, so that's not an issue.


>  I would say go with Unity so they
> won't have to change again for a few years at least.
>

Okay.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Art Edwards <
edwardsa at icantbelieveimdoingthis.com> wrote:


> Many people regard Unity (Gnome 3) as a huge mistake.
>

Because of any bug(s)...?


> I. If you use the computer primarily for reading email and surfing the
> web (including watching videos) then Unity is probably fine.
>
> II. If you have had a lot of experience computing using either windows
> or Mac OS, and you do a lot of work (code writing, science, etc.), then
> I would recommend unequivocally, that you start with Gnome 2.
>
> Make recommendations based on this understanding.
>

Oh well, thanks.
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