Interesting comments all, thanks ... It does seem I am not alone in being a bit underwhelmed with the way Unity/Gnome3 is going. I guess 'we' are not the target demographic... I actually bounced Ubuntu 11.04 off my main desktop when its 3GB RAM started creaking, which struck me as ridiculous. I went to Lubuntu, and after a brief getting-used to it phase am fairly happy with that.
> Bob Dunlop : >> >> My serious (work and home development) systems all run Gentoo with fluxbox >> but that's realy for experienced developers only. I played briefly with Gentoo once. Left a LUG meeting with an install 10% done... bit hard core for me nowadays tbh. >> The netbook used for browsing and playing with things used to run Ubuntu >> until they broke it with Unity. Now it runs Xubuntu which uses Xfce as >> it's interface. All the main Ubuntu apps but with a user interface more >> atune with us luddites. I ran Xubuntu once on an old Panasonic Toughie with quite low memory - worked pretty well as I recall. David Neylan : > Interesting thread but why no mention of Kubuntu? funny how things come around, isn't it! I was put off KDE in the early days, preferring the ascetic Gnome over the (as I saw it then) Fisher-Price-y shininess of KDE. Then a while ago at a Hants LUG meet I saw KDE runing on Anton's laptop and thought that it actually looked quite smart. I am downloading it for a test drive as we speak. Arch also, I recall, sounded interesting a while ago. I guess if I do get a VM setup sorted then trying various distros out is actually not that much of a pai. After a good few years of being happy with Ubuntu this feels almost like the old days, picking and trying out different distros. Quite exciting really! thanks all, see some of you tonight, hopefully - -- best regards, Victor Churchill, Bournemouth -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-04-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
