On 06/10/14 21:11, Richard Owlett wrote:
I intend to set it up as multi-boot:
1. whatever Windows is on it
2. Squeeze LTS with Gnome2 - I like it and believe he will like its
human interface.
3. Wheezy with KDE - Wheezy is more uptodate and I suspect would want
some KDE specific applications.
Have you had a look at XFCE?
and initially tried
running Ubuntu 14.04 with the Unity desktop but found that, in their
wisdom, Canonical had stripped Unity of its 2D mode and had LLVM trying
to make up for the rather lacklustre (by today's standards) video card
in the laptop.
I installed XFCE in place and found the machine ran a lot better. The
UI in XFCE probably isn't too dissimilar to what you might have seen in
Gnome2, and might be a suitable alternative if Gnome 3 isn't your taste,
and it saves having to manage two versions of Debian on the same
machine. (I'm not sure if Gnome2 is available under Wheezy, I suspect not.)