I think Glenn was right when he said he came to the wrong list. Since so
many people jumped in to help, I'm sure if anyone on list had experience
with XPLike then they would have offered up their experiences. Since no
one apparently has any experience with XPLike, they offered up the
information they did have. It's too bad the people who gave of their
free time to help out were called clueless and accused of being so
wrapped up in their own flavors of Ubuntu and treated with such sarcasm.
Glenn asked if anyone had any experience running XPLike, and I think he
got his answer. I guess everyone on list could have echoed in with "No",
or his question could have just been met with deafening silence, but I'm
not sure if that would have been any better.
Having a plethora of distributions, flavors and user interfaces to
choose from is great, and I hope XPLike is accessible and sticks around
for a while for people who choose to run it. With MS discontinuing
support for XP though and Ubuntu 11.04 no longer being supported, I
suspect people running XP and XPLike will eventually have to move on to
something else.
I'm also curious why someone would prefer a clean Ubuntu over Vinux,
although I'm not sure I'd consider XPLike to be a clean Ubuntu. In a lot
of ways, it's no different than Vinux other than it's tailored to the XP
user instead of the Orca/Speakup user. I find Vinux to be the ubuntu
distribution that's just configured the way I want Ubuntu to be
configured, with Orca coming up automatically, Speakup working and
accessible applications already installed. I could start with a clean
Ubuntu, but why spend the time configuring it myself when someone has
already done it for me? This is just my opinion, and I'm perfectly OK
with someone choosing to do things differently. I'm just curious as to
what the motivation is here in this case.
On 11/08/2013 08:49 AM, B. Henry wrote:
You were unclear as to your past experience, or actually mentioned nothing, so
as is usually the case people try and give more basic information than may be
called for just in case.
You certainly miss the main point though.
The interface must be accessible, and I for one tried to steer you towards how
to investigate this.
I and others mentioned that you are not going to have that great of an
experiennce with any Ubuntu spin-off based on 11.04 as it's not supported and
newer orcas wouldn't be able to run on it even if the iterface were accessible.
Lastly, if this is the last version of the distro you mention available it's a
sign that it's either no longer maintained, or not popular enough to be
maintained agressively.
It may be a very stable ad comfortable interface, but if it's so good why does
it ever get any attention from pop tech writers who'd love to give XP
die-hards something to use. That last one is certainly ot a definitive
argument, and my opinion of pop-tech bloggers and reporters is mixed with more
being yet more examples of folks living in data echo chambers and otherwise not
worth reading than actual qualified and motivated tech journalists, but...
As for HKK's comment, unless this is something different from what I've heard
about, (yes, and even know ppl who've tried), it's not what Mint's been using.
I think one of the interfaces that Mint had available was partly accessible,
but would like to hear from anyone with any experience.
Was it the mate interface, or sinimun, (or neither), that was somewhat
accessible with Orca?
Also, i'm interested in what you prefer, Linny, in straight Ubuntu over Vinux,
and of course which Ubuntu and Vinux releases were you comparing?
On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 12:19:49AM -0600, Lenny wrote:
this will be my last post on this, because either folks have no clue of what
I was asking about, or they are so wrapped up in their own flavor of Ubuntu
that the only advice I got was to try either a newer version, or try vinux.
I have extensively used Ubuntu, and it has gotten me out of binds with my
windows systems in the past, like saving data. and I have tried vinux and I
prefer a clean Ubuntu to it.
but the Os of my choice is windows, XP, with all of its flaws.
Clearly there are Linux users out there like me, such that a distro of
Ubuntu was made to act like windows.
I guess I was barking up the wrong tree on this list with my quest for the
benefit of someone's experience of this distro of Ubuntu.
Thanks though.
Glenn
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