Xubuntu, come and talk bad about it.

[woodsmoke]

Well, I won't "talk bad" about Xubuntu, but because I do a lot of "routine application" stuff, I have found, after experimenting with all of the various window managers, that a more "feature rich" enviornment works better for me.

As an example I really appreciated the elegance of #!, before it went Debian, and learned a lot about the innards of the file system, some small amount of cli stuff, etc. I loved the conky thing and playing with it, but when it came to "routine application" stuff, where I have to do a lot of routine work, and moving between applications over and over again, etc. ..... it worked "ok" but was just not "comfortable"...

So....Xubuntu is ok, I even like AfterStep and NextStep, especially Fragadelic's implementation of it, but.... again....useability for me in particular.

And the opposite extreme is Enlightenment, I tried all of the various implementations of it, and it is excessively feature rich, for me, particularly.

So, when it comes down to it, for me, for doing large amounts of routine work wherein I have to move data back and forth between multiple applications, both on the computer and on the web, I find that a well rounded Gnome 2 type OS that has unfailing support for the Compiz cube, mainly, or Kubuntu work the best.

Just my particular needs and probably not that of others.

woodsmoke

[scoon]

I use Kubuntu on my desktop which has 4 cores and 8G ram. But, My old and slow laptop has an old Pentium and only 768 Meg ram, can't run KDE or gnome . This rig has 2 OS partitions one Lubuntu and one Ubuntu Studio. They both work well but I seem to prefer LXDE but still like XFCE.

Ken.

This...

[jpenguin]

I prefer KDE too, but there's no denying that XFCE & LXDE are less demanding

[GreyGeek]

Xubuntu is not a bad DE, especially if your PC is old or under powered, or you are very agile with the CLI.

[lcorken]

I use Kubuntu on my desktop which has 4 cores and 8G ram. But, My old and slow laptop has an old Pentium and only 768 Meg ram, can't run KDE or gnome . This rig has 2 OS partitions one Lubuntu and one Ubuntu Studio. They both work well but I seem to prefer LXDE but still like XFCE.

Ken.

I've also used Xubuntu and can thorougly recommend it for someone who doesn't have a powerful pc. XFCE is a very powerful and useful DE whilst being able to run on low resources.

[sixonetonoffun]

Might just be me but I've come to love icewm which susie installs from the live cd as an alternative DE. Its not as much fun as kde ect... but it is gentle on memory and graphic resources. Makes XFCE seem like bloatware. But XFCE is righteous in its own right. Should kde become unusable to me I'd use it and have!

[K-Project]

More RAM? I dunno, I quite like Xubuntu. I stuck it on the missus' laptop to replace Gnome Lucid 10.04, and it's pretty good, especially on her lower spec. But for me on my own desktop KDE has no equal. I have 3Gb RAM though, and can imagine if you only have say 1Gb, then yes it could probably get sticky.

[erigais]

Xubuntu sucks!

Seriously though, we hope you stay in Kubuntu-land

What do you like better about Xubuntu? Just curious.

well i'll always stay in kubuntu land, i dont think i own one single computer or laptop
without a kubuntu partition on it but....

i am a visual artist, both digital and phsyical(i drew my forum post picture to give you an idea. here is a link
for a closer look http://i875.photobucket.com/albums/a...uriundone2.jpg)
one thing i really like to specialize in is near photo-realism(or attempting to make as near as my ability lets me).
and to do this kind of work digitally i need to use paint programs like photoshop/gimp/krita.

i noticed in xubuntu i have a bit more resources and things like gimp run smoother and give me less problems.
usually the whole xfce interface and the tiny menus really turned me off from using it tho. well the newer version
is really nice, i dunno if i can quite explain its just a bit more user friendly than the previous versions of xubuntu
and things are running without a hitch.

the extra system resources are nice too. I dont have any issues with kubuntu in particular, i can run paint
programs there too just some times when im starting to tax my ram my brush does not go as smooth(yes, it
sounds crazy but some points when your starting to tax your ram your brush can actually stutter and give you
a choppy line when you are zoomed in pretty far)

i know im being kinda vague on things, im a little bit less technical than most linux users. hopefully, in the
future i can put together a better response with specifics.

[dequire]

I really like the direction Xubuntu is going in. This last version was really good imho and i realized im spending more and more time in it. someone please come and talk bad about so i stay in kubuntu forever.

Xubuntu sucks!

Seriously though, we hope you stay in Kubuntu-land

What do you like better about Xubuntu? Just curious.

[erigais]

I really like the direction Xubuntu is going in. This last version was really good imho and i realized im spending more and more time in it. someone please come and talk bad about so i stay in kubuntu forever.