Some newbie questions

[Bat Phil]

I did consider that possibility Eddie and it may well limit my ultimate
choice of desktop. I am hoping that the main limiting factor is the lack of
system memory rather than video memory. However, I will have to wait for a
couple of days to find out.

Thanks for your input.
Phil
On 7 Sep 2014 23:36, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 09/07/2014 06:29 PM, Bat Phil wrote:
>
>    After a weekend of installing and re-installing, I thought I would
> share what I have found:
>
>  Hardware setup:
>
>  AMD Semperon 300+ (old)
>  64MB AGP graphics card
>  1GB DDR400 RAM
>  160GB HD configured as follows.....
>     500MB boot partition
>     10GB swap partition
>     142GB root partition
>  250GB HD configured at home partition
>
>
>  I have tried the following installs, in order:
>
>  Gnome desktop (64 and 32 bit) - desktop crashes at login and will not
> work
>  Mate desktop (64 bit) - works fine
> Cinnamon desktop (64 and 32 bit) - desktop crashes as soon as I run an
> application
>  LXDE desktop (32 and 64 bit) - works fine but some warnings flashed when
> updating via YUM (something about unknown metadata)
>
>
>  I set up two user accounts, put some data in the home folders and
> configured Thunderbird on both accounts (did this on the Mate install).
> On subsequent installs, I mapped the home partition to my data drive and it
> mapped straight to the home directory structure previously set up - all the
> data is there, as are the e-mail settings and browsing history. All this
> without any further intervention.
>
> Unfortunately, the current LXDE install won't let me create any
> additional users for some reason (despite having set my account up as
> administrator), so I can't yet confirm that my second account will also map
> to the pre-existing home folder for that user, but I have no reason to
> believe it won't.
>
>  I'll have another play when the new memory arrives, I still want to try
> Gnome and KDE, but I do like the look of Cinnamon so far (despite not
> being able to get it to work yet).
>
>  Many thanks to everyone who contributed their knowledge and opinions.
>
>  Phil
>
>
>
>
> On 5 September 2014 21:22, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
>
>> On 09/05/2014 01:08 PM, Bat Phil wrote:
>>
>>> Best thing then is to set up a 2-drive system, put some non-critical
>>> data files in the home directories and try it out then. Although
>>> presumably, if I do manage to balls up the IDs and block the data, then
>>> it's just a case of logging in as root and sorting out permissions??
>>>
>>
>> Generally speaking, yes.  Even more important, be sure to back up /home
>> before you start this, just to be on the safe side.
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>
>
>  I'm going to go out on a limb and say it could be that the graphics card
> isn't "strong" enough?...I mean 64MB?....I don't know off hand what the
> memory requirements are for a standard Gnome desktop...but I'm thinking it
> might need more than that?.I do know that I have machines with 256MB
> graphics and they run fine..but nothing under that....(so far!)....I dunno
> I guess if I'm wrong then no worries...since I'm not a "guru" or even a
> "professional" on any level! Just adding my two cents....
>
>
> EGO II
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