[mythtv-users] Fresh Ubuntu server install - recomended Desktop?

[David Campbell]

A JM wrote:
> There's a lot of apps I never used and new nothing about in Kubuntu
> I'm assuming that's what your talking about when referring to KDE. It
> would be nice to get a stripped down version without all the fluff and
> extra menu items, maybe that's the intent of the server install?

Menu's are editable.  KDE is totally configurable.

Linux isn't like windows - it doesn't matter what is installed on disk 
as long as applications aren't running.  There is no registry, there is 
no applications that are going to remove existing drivers etc.  The only 
concern is disk space and that shouldn't really concern anyone anymore.

> I'm looking for something that is gui driven as I come from a windows
> environment so it's easier for me to transition over to the CL.
> 
> Things like an explorer, network settings and other common tasks are
> much quicker for me with a gui so I'd be looking for those things to
> be supported.
> 
> Openbox seems to fall short on those items so might not be a good fit for me.

You don't to use openbox if you are needing a gui to configure stuff - 
unless you go for a hybrid approach of running openbox on Fedora or 
Redhat where you would have access to all the system-config-network type 
gui's that can be invoked from any window manager.

Dave