Questions about Ubuntu 18.04 live/install ISO

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 17:47, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> I don't partitularly like GNOME 2.

*Rolls eyes*

You are either playing some kind of weird whack-a-mole game with me
here, or you are just trolling.

> I should explain:  I "learned" UNIX-ish desktop on a VAXStation-2000 running
> VMS w/ DECWindows (DECWindows == Digital Equipment Corp.'s branding of X11 w/
> Motif, including the Motif Window Manager -- mwm).  This "desktop" predated
> the whole pointy-clicky file manager nonsense and way predated the infamous
> "Start Menu" crapola out of Redmond, WA and predated [Clasic] MacOS.  I liked
> that environment.  My current desktop, looks pretty close to this original
> desktop (well it is in color -- VAXStation-2000s were B&W).

Yeah yeah. Don't bother trying to play "here's a nickel, kid, buy
yourself a real computer" with me.

(Reference: https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-24 )

> I *never* owned a Mess-Windows system. I never owned a Mac that I used for
> anything other then a "build box" (I currently have an old MacMini that is
> headless). I went from VAX/VMS on glass ttys (VT52, VT100, VT220, H19) to a
> VAXStation-2000 to a VAXStation-3000 to DECStations (MIPS processors running
> Ultrix [a BSD variant]), SparcStations, SGIs, Alphas to "PCs" running Linux. A
> more-or-less "seamless" UNIX-ish experience, pretty much exclusively a command
> shell workflow environment. Along the way: TeX and LaTeX (never a word
> processor), SOS, TECO, Emacs, MicroEmacs (all keyboard-based editors in
> terminal windows, none with "pointy-clicky GUIs"), and things like Makefiles,
> auto tools, etc. (pure CLI tools).

Woo go you.

I started out back then as well. Big deal. Except I went for a native
RISC machine as soon as I had the money.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=75

If you want CDE, you can have CDE.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/09/cde_goes_opensource/

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