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Uninstalling Mono - Why I'm Not Doing Iy | 265 comments | Create New Account
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you can dump mono
Authored by: cjk fossman on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 08:45 PM EDT
You should be able to find a ton of how to with a little Googling

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Linux XFCE ==> Mate
Authored by: Nivag on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 01:44 AM EDT
I fled for GNOME 3 to xfce. I was happy with GNOME 2 (bar a few niggles) - now
I'm migrating to mate, it adds back in some of the useful features that were
dropped by the GNOME 'Developers':

http://mate-desktop.org

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Linux Minut XFCE
Authored by: Wol on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 04:02 AM EDT
Can you install mononono? Maybe force-install it, then uninstall anything it
conflicts with?

Or just install gentoo :-)

Cheers,
Wol

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Use Xubuntu - spot on.
Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 04:46 AM EDT
no hassle.

---
RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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Uninstalling Mono - Why I'm Not Doing Iy
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 09:34 AM EDT

It has been suggested I uninstall Mono. I could do this easily. I choose not to. I also choose not to support a Linux Distribution that is careless enough to install Mono as the default.

It's a matter of principles.

If you check, you'll find I'm still listed as being a "Mono" hater. I'm still blocked by Miguel on Twitter. I still get hit by Mono-Trolls on occasion.

None of which has changed my mind. I want nothing to do with Microsoft Technology, and won't even install Flip4Mac or whatever the crappy video software is on my MacBook.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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Try Mint KDE
Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 01:35 PM EDT
It doesn't have mono.

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Ubuntu 12.04
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 03:17 PM EDT

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and am very happy with it. I have very low spec hardware, so it automatically used the 2D version of Unity (which doesn't require hardware acceleration), which works very nicely. If you have low spec hardware, then I would recommend 12.04 (LTS) over 12.10, as that one is using the experimental LLVM-pipe for PCs that don't have hardware acceleration.

The esthetics of Unity look different from Gnome 2 at first sight, but I found that the concepts behind it are similar, so it didn't take long to get used to. It may be blinged-up, but the fundamentals are not that different. The things that were changed are the things that never really worked right in Gnome 2. The work-space switching functionality for example now actually lets you find things if you have a lot of windows open.

I have been using Linux for more than a dozen years. Originally I used KDE with Mandrake/Mandriva, but switched to Ubuntu (with Gnome 2) when Mandriva started to go down the drain. At first I found Gnome 2 to be very unintuitive and difficult to get used to, but after a few weeks I got to like it. When I first tried Unity I was only doing so in order to come up with a list of genuine reasons why I didn't like it before switching to XFCE. It took me about 15 minutes to decide that Unity was a lot better than Gnome 2 (or XFCE), and I didn't want to go back.

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Linux Minut XFCE
Authored by: UncleVom on Monday, April 15 2013 @ 01:10 AM EDT
I've been playing with Kali Linux.
Fully Debian compatible, lots of entertainment software (-;
No mono by default.
You can run it live to check it out.
Comes by default with a Gnome variant, but being tightly Debian based you have
lots of options to chose from.

You can even do a network install from a mini.iso and make your own choices if
you find that more appealing, but be warned that process can take some time
depending on your internet speed and the speed of you computer.





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