[Cew27]

xfce is manly for older machines, it has less eye candy for gnome or kde
compiz has joined with beryl and is called compiz still, you can download it from the repos (online server that can be accessed through add remove programs)

[ashaiba]

Linux Ubuntu and Mandriva worked fine for my VAIO, but not my LIVE cd for Mint

[Cew27]

make sure the cd boots in the mac still, failing that either download the gnome version and try that or install ubuntu

[ashaiba]

it still boots on the mac fine. just not on my pc

[ashaiba]

O yea. and i can't edit my above post, and i am not trying to bump this thread.

But for the GUI
Why is XFCE for lower end or older comptuers

I currenlty have a XFCE Beta version of mint. I thought that the XFCE looks better then the Gnome, but which one is more convenient and does it effect how beryl runs?

[Cew27]

can you post a screenshot of your xfce deskop?
also xfce uses less resources than gnome but is considered less configurable
also you will want the current release of mint the beta is as it says a beta (infact i think its an alpha) meaning it is buggy and test version download the supported current one (daryna)

[ashaiba]

i havent installed my xkce yet. im running of a live cd for the gnome version on my mac and the cd wont work for my pc.

[Cew27]

ok well download and burn the gnome 4.0 daryna mint and try it on your pc
are you on msn at the moment ?

[ashaiba]

Nevermind it doesnt...

"no i am not. my skool blocks msn"

[Cew27]

try running the ubuntu live cd
what the the specs for your pc

[spot]

As for the special attractions of Xfce you'll find more detail than either of us can provide piecemeal by reading the article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfce

There's also a comparison of the major alternatives at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...p_environments which shows what home-rolled packages each desktop environment provides. Xfce has no inbuilt CD ripper, Office suite, Web browser or email client. That's not likely to matter to most users, they'd use the conventional offerings for those functions like firefox and thunderbird.

[ashaiba]

Originally Posted by Cew27 try running the ubuntu live cd what the the specs for your pc

160GB HDD1, 250GB HDD2
nVidia 7600GT
Some crappy intel/sony motherboard
intel pentium 4 ;3Ghz
1.5GB DDR2 ram

[spot]

The entire point of asking is that driver compatibility is dependent on which crappy intel/sony motherboard you have. We can't be specific in our pinpointing of the problem unless you're specific in telling us where to look.

[ashaiba]

Originally Posted by spot The entire point of asking is that driver compatibility is dependent on which crappy intel/sony motherboard you have. We can't be specific in our pinpointing of the problem unless you're specific in telling us where to look.

i don't know what its called though.

[spot]

Neither, rather more forgivably, do we.