Op 2015-12-19 om 02:09 schreef Basil Fernie:
Yes, I know what you mean about KDE. A few years back, I was trying to
settle on just one 'Buntu and scrapped KDE for that very reason. Chose
Lubuntu and had fun planting LXDE on various unlikely candidates
including Edubuntu. Stayed largely with Lubuntu since then, although
delving into !#, pure Debian, various Debian-based things (e.g. Mint)
and, BTW, using sundry Puppies quite a lot for system maintenance and
repair. Fouled up my MBR, it seems, with a recent trial installation
of PCLinuxOS (no LiveCD available). Took too much time to recover,
backups included. Won't go there again.
Found Lubuntu releases tend to be a bit rough around the edges in
their earlier versions and decided to have an "old faithful"
low-hassle working installation of LXLE 14.04 LTS while experimenting
with the newer and flashier releases on a few spare partitions I keep
available. For example, I have Lubuntu 15.10 and have used it with
much success, including running very much newer versions of Opera
(which I've used since OS/2 days) that have emerged recently, but not
transferring my core workload to it yet, which was wise because
something's gone wrong with the boot process of the 15.10
installation. Will have to strip and re-install, I guess.
Kept an eye on new emerging distros and am enormously impressed with
4MLinux, for very low resource consumption. Will have to spend a
morning getting HDU and USB bootables going. But what I think you may
find interesting is Q4OS, Debian-based but with a KDE3-forked user
interface called Trinity Desktop Environment. It is blisteringly fast
even though not RAM-based like the Puppies; and the general level of
QA is what I certainly had come to expect from the KDE camp. Yes, it
uses more RAM than Lubuntu in some scenarios, but not all that much -
and the results are impressive. Using version 1.4.4 I found a few
"incompletenesses" rather than outright errors on the margins of
development, and am looking forward to the release of version 2.0.x. I
like the target desktop experience which is Win2K, still to my mind
the best OS that M$ put out; but you can click it across to LXDE if
desired.
What I am looking for is a distro I can confidently install and
maintain on old skinny hardware owned by pensioners who want to avoid
the Win10 vortex but must escape from the XP bugtrap. Lubuntu ticks a
lot of boxes, but is rather "unfamiliar". Q4OS could be "it".
I looked at Kmail but that was one ugly swamp-monster! (Well, not
actually ugly, but it was like installing a whole new OS. ) Any
comments on Evolution? Is it still being maintained?
My comments on the disk-burners are in an e-mail to Fritz.
Regards,
Basil
The Trinity desktop didn't impress me much, especially the size and look
of the icons, but I found Q4OS (as almost pure Debian 8) a good base to
test LXQt. Also LXDE and XFCE can be easily installed on Q4OS. In my
opinion however Lubuntu is a more comfortable distro considering
software resources, whereas I can't believe LXDE takes a long learning
curve coming from XP.
Henk
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