[14:48] <craigbass76> I'm setting up a laptop, and don't want KDE. Is my best bet Xubuntu then running the ubuntustudio-installer ?
[14:50] <OvenWerks> craigbass76: That would make sense, yes.
[14:52] <OvenWerks> craigbass76: do note that the studio applications will pull in some of the KDE libs in any case but they should not run all the time.
[14:52] <craigbass76> That'll work. I just haven't liked KDE for a while. I think Fedora 4 was the last time I used it regularly.
[14:54] <OvenWerks> For audio only and not the graphics tools that studio also comes with, XFCE is probably better.
[14:54] <OvenWerks> But KDE has things like monitor set up that are harder to do with XFCE
[14:58] <craigbass76> I'm thinking of sticking it on my older laptop too, but you're right. When I tried Mint with Mate or XFCE, getting multiple monitors (via a docking station) working was near impossible. My son has gotten into astro-photography lately, so I may throw it on anyway and give it to him. He won't need the docking station capability anyway.
[15:02] <OvenWerks> Hmm, I didn't have trouble setting up dual monitors but then mine were plugged in all the time. I do remember that if one wasn't plugged in at start up and added later I had to reset everything
[15:02] <OvenWerks> I think it is better now than then though.
[15:03] <craigbass76> Sounds about right. I think last November was the last time I tried it, and it didn't go well.
[15:03] <craigbass76> My main box is a mini PC though, which never moves - problem solved.
[15:04] <craigbass76> I accidentally tried to join #ubuntu-studio (with a hyphen) and got booted. Is that an unofficial channel?
[15:04] <OvenWerks> I have no idea.
[15:09] <OvenWerks> There is no #ubuntu-studio so you were trying to make such a channel and it decided not to let you do so.
[15:33] <craigbass76> OvenWerks: Thanks a bunch - dd is done, and I'm booting to the Xubuntu iso. Have a fantabulous day.
[22:07] <bhechinger> Now that was a pleasant user interaction.