So here i am using Fedora 17 :)

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16201

Thanks Tux, and you are correct again.

I did add my name to the first install, but that install went bad so i reinstalled. I didn't add rod to admin the second install.

Erisian · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2012 5:28 pm **(#42)**

molly wrote:

Thanks, no I will stay with su -. I just asked cuz I thought that is what the command was to get the XFCE. I did install it but haven't looked yet to where or what it is. :oops:

If you mean the XFCE desktop environment you select it when you log in instead of gnome.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Thanks I will check that out Eris.

gerard82 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2012 5:50 pm **(#44)**

@ Erisian,
Installing software in general in Linux is done with root privileges.
Logging in into a desktop is done as user.
Most serious Linux distro's won't even allow you to login to a desktop as root.
The reason is that the desktop is connected to the X server.
Servers are easier to compromise by intruders.
X is the part that produces the windows,icons and all that.
Gerard.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Erisian wrote:

molly wrote:

Thanks, no I will stay with su -. I just asked cuz I thought that is what the command was to get the XFCE. I did install it but haven't looked yet to where or what it is. :oops:

If you mean the XFCE desktop environment you select it when you log in instead of gnome.

Well I was over in that XFCE place and it was such a mess I had to get out of there cuz it is like a foreign world. There was 90 small folders and files on my desktop, I didn't know what to do with them, anyway, couldn't wait to get back here to Gnome. Maybe some day I will go back and try to figure it out.

Erisian · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2012 6:19 pm **(#46)**

Oh well. You might like it but in my opinion you're not missing much.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Might have been better if it came with a road atlas.

Erisian · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2012 6:24 pm **(#48)**

molly wrote:

Might have been better if it came with a road atlas.

GnuTux · **Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2012 7:12 pm **(#49)**

It's a very basic and lightweight desktop but it's a good choice as a 2nd emergency desktop, in the event your primary desktop happens to go south and you can't get back in. :bigthup

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It's also a pretty good option for old, under powered PCs that might still have some life in them.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16201

I am simply loving Fedora.

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

Finally Gimp-PhotoComix_Lab-2.8.1 is ready for Windows and just now you switch to Fedora :gaah

That of course is a good idea
except from my selfish point of view : if you are more on Linux :spring

you may be less attracted to test something in Windows :crash

But on the other hand you are giving a good example..too long time that i don't use my linux partition that really need to be upgraded or replaced