dual booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 7

[Tom H]

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 29/05/13 08:29, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On 05/28/2013 04:47 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>
>>> Which is why you use XFCE instead of Unity, right? :-D
>>
>> Ha! I DO install standard Ubuntu first, play with it for 5 minutes (long
>> enough to install synaptic), and then install XFCE. If something goes ape,
>> then I have the "standard" to fall back to, you see? :) Ric
>
> If you were using openSUSE you wouldn't need to do what you do because you
> can install xfce (amongst others) right at the beginning as the preferred DE
> without having to go through the shenanigans which you do now :-) .

Just because Ric installs Ubuntu before installing XFCE, doesn't mean
that you can't install XFCE without installing Unity on Ubuntu just as
you can just install XFCE on Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, OpenSUSE,
...