Ah ha! Now I know what you’re talking about. Please disregard my FB message.
If apt-get install xfce4 doesn’t work for you and you don’t want to deal with installing Debian, try Xubuntu. It’s Ubuntu with Xfce4. But if you can make Debian go, it’s the superior choice. That’s what those shitheads at Canonical start with, but then screw up. If you start with Debian you can install Xfce4, or Gnome, or KDE, or any other window manager that blows your dress up. Or several window managers. Heck, try out a bunch of them and see which you like best.
Freakin’ Canonical shitheads. They’ve got to be sick in the collective head to make a window manager that absolutely requires compositing hardware the default. And those shitheads start with Debian, which is The Universal Operating System because it’ll run on just about anything that resembles a computer in some way. But noooooo, they’ve got to screw that up because they’re egomaniacal twats.
@Bels_Kaylar - lol hug thanks now to sort out what I’ll do
@starmanjones - If’n ya gots a relatively good connection, Debian’s netinstall disk will get you going. For the most part you just bounce on the OK button, but in a few places you have to make a decision or two. Like, yeah, US English is what I want, and sure, just go ahead and use up the whole darn hard drive as one big partition. (Unless you’re dual booting, but if you are then you know what not to do.)
At the end of it, you can choose a desktop environment, or not. I believe it gives you Gnome, but I never even look at the task select feature so I could be wrong. If you don’t select a desktop environment, then after reboot you get a plain old console. But that’s no big thing.
# apt-get update # apt-get install xfce4
Or whatever other window manager you might want. Gnome is a big bloaty beast that’s lost its way, and KDE is at least as bad if not worserer and makes my eyes bleed.
The cool part about NOT choosing Gnome or KDE is that you don’t end up with a hundred applications you’ll never use, none of which can be removed without also losing your window manager. Once into X, you can fire up synaptic and install just the stuff you want/need, and get on with your life.
It may be that my perspective is horribly skewed and doesn’t fit your world. I’ve been a Unix guy since before there was a windoze, and a Debian guy since before there was an Ubuntu. But I can say that Debian stable will not throw these random Ubuntu shithead surprises into your life.
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good luck
Ah ha! Now I know what you’re talking about. Please disregard my FB message.
If apt-get install xfce4 doesn’t work for you and you don’t want to deal with installing Debian, try Xubuntu. It’s Ubuntu with Xfce4. But if you can make Debian go, it’s the superior choice. That’s what those shitheads at Canonical start with, but then screw up. If you start with Debian you can install Xfce4, or Gnome, or KDE, or any other window manager that blows your dress up. Or several window managers. Heck, try out a bunch of them and see which you like best.
Freakin’ Canonical shitheads. They’ve got to be sick in the collective head to make a window manager that absolutely requires compositing hardware the default. And those shitheads start with Debian, which is The Universal Operating System because it’ll run on just about anything that resembles a computer in some way. But noooooo, they’ve got to screw that up because they’re egomaniacal twats.
oxoo
@sleekpunk - l’ll be there in an hour
@HappierHeathen - lol
I’ll try 
@Bels_Kaylar - lol hug thanks now to sort out what I’ll do
@starmanjones - If’n ya gots a relatively good connection, Debian’s netinstall disk will get you going. For the most part you just bounce on the OK button, but in a few places you have to make a decision or two. Like, yeah, US English is what I want, and sure, just go ahead and use up the whole darn hard drive as one big partition. (Unless you’re dual booting, but if you are then you know what not to do.)
At the end of it, you can choose a desktop environment, or not. I believe it gives you Gnome, but I never even look at the task select feature so I could be wrong. If you don’t select a desktop environment, then after reboot you get a plain old console. But that’s no big thing.
# apt-get update
# apt-get install xfce4
Or whatever other window manager you might want. Gnome is a big bloaty beast that’s lost its way, and KDE is at least as bad if not worserer and makes my eyes bleed.
The cool part about NOT choosing Gnome or KDE is that you don’t end up with a hundred applications you’ll never use, none of which can be removed without also losing your window manager. Once into X, you can fire up synaptic and install just the stuff you want/need, and get on with your life.
It may be that my perspective is horribly skewed and doesn’t fit your world. I’ve been a Unix guy since before there was a windoze, and a Debian guy since before there was an Ubuntu. But I can say that Debian stable will not throw these random Ubuntu shithead surprises into your life.
Yikes! Hope it’s fixable.