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[Earl57]

I'll probably install KDE on my MX install just to see how much it is different from M12. Probably not much. I used my MX14 disk Friday to do some things on my Win 7 machine at work. I no longer have admin rights on my work machine thanks to our new IT team, so there are things I can no longer do from within Windows, but I can do outside of Windows with a live Linux session. I booted into MX14, and it took only a few minutes to feel right at home, and was able to copy/delete files that were inaccessible to me from within Windows. I think MX could easily replace my go-to M8 installed on a thumb drive for repair work.

[Jerry3904]

Make sure to check out the document of users before you who have gone that route:

http://www.mepiscommunity.org/doc_mx/advanced_kde.html

[uncle mark]

I no longer have admin rights on my work machine thanks to our new IT team, so there are things I can no longer do from within Windows, but I can do outside of Windows with a live Linux session. I booted into MX14, and it took only a few minutes to feel right at home, and was able to copy/delete files that were inaccessible to me from within Windows.

LOL. Maybe that's what they didn't want you doing?

[Earl57]

I'm sure they don't. But over the years, I wound up with 4 user accounts on this machine, 2 local, and 2 domain accounts, and I find now that I don't have access to my other accounts. It was handy to be able to login as Admin and clean the registry or install/delete apps. I also had some files and templates that I needed occasional access to under my old domain account. Also some other utilities that ran as admin that I can't use now.
Using my MX cd, I was able to move the files that I wanted to keep to my current user account, and delete a bunch of stuff I didn't need anymore. I was also able to see some interesting stuff in those files denied to me, like remote login credentials written in plain text.....