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The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 13 XFCE This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 13 (Maya) desktop (with the XFCE desktop) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

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By: syncdram
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I've been noticing more and more from articles that discuss the perfect desktop concerning anything ubuntu, the one common denominator is the all carry XFCE. This really says a lot. Kinda makes you wonder if canonical is intentionally destroying ubuntu?

By: Rob
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Tasty tasty!!!!!

By: Mint user since version 9
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I have been using Mint since version 9. No install problems works great. Then with version 12 Cinnamon and Mate caused some issues but got it working. Then with 13 tried to install Mate and XFCE. Both would boot to live CD but both crashed during the install process. Seems that the install slideshow was the culprit. So you have to do sudo apt-get remove ubiquity-slideshow before the install and then run install and will work fine. Another annoying problem is with audio. Previous versions had the audio porting to the normal green audio out jack. However some bright cookie somewhere changed the driver and sound only comes out the black port. I will note that the PC hardware has not changed since first installation of Mint 9. I have to say that XFCE is much lighter on resources and works better then GNOME on older systems. It took me some time to find the solution to these problems and I hope this helps someone.

By: Joe Lunchpail
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I installed Mint13 Mate Maya yesterday and went through all the update rigamaroll. I know it's 2016 and 13 is outdated but I'm running it on a beat-up Dell Dimwnsion 2400 that's stock other than the RAM boosted to 1.25 gigs. It went on to install about 500 updates, there was some kind of GRUB problem. Anyways... I waited for 6 hours for it to complete, and when I rebooted... Crash!!

Oh well. I just did a complete re-install and will go from here