On 1/20/22 7:18 AM, c. marlow wrote:
aka the Dan Youngquist method:
Dan states in a recent email, that the way he installs TDE would be to install a MINIMAL XFCE installation and then install TDE
I didn't say a minimal XFCE installation; I only said I usually install TDE after XFCE. I've installed TDE after LXDE and had no problems, but the last time was a few years ago, so something could've changed by now.
The last 4-5 years I've mostly been using MX Linux. Install, update, then install TDE per the instructions on the website. My goal is to get a smoothly working system as quickly and simply as possible, without having to mess around with multimedia, wireless drivers, etc.; MX does that very nicely. On old, slower machines I usually change to an Antix kernel because they're optimized for better performance on older hardware.
The only change I'd really like to make to the above procedure is to find a rolling release that will run TDE, and hopefully Debian based. But I haven't had much luck with that. I really don't like having to completely reinstall every few years.