[GRLUG] distro advice

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 01:09:12PM -0400, Topher wrote:
> I have a slightly older box that I want to use as a minecraft server AND
> client.  It has a VERY old version of mint as well as winXP on it. 
> No-one's used the box in a while, I'm pretty sure I'm just going to wipe
> it clean.
> 
> I want to put linux on it, and I want the install to be as painless as
> possible.  The desktop pretty much doesn't matter, since we just need a
> simple way to load minecraft.
> 
> So I need something kind of light, with an easy install.  I'm thinking
> not gnome or kde, and probably not even xfce.  Something like fluxbox
> sounds about right.

And since when does a guy who runs Arch care about an "easy install"?
One would think any distro that actually _has_ an installer would
qualify as "easy" to an Arch guy. ;)
-- 
john-thomas
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