Comments on: A confessed lack of enthusiasm

By: Fair but honest? Xubuntu 8.10 « Motho ke motho ka botho

Fair but honest? Xubuntu 8.10 « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:43:45 +0000

[...] few months ago I promised a fair look at Xubuntu 8.10 though, after reading a note by one of the developers insisting that the Intrepid release of [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:26:00 +0000

You’re right, Vincent. I apologize if I am overly critical. It took me a long time to realize that when the Xubuntu team said “old,” they meant machines that were still years newer than what I am accustomed to. I hope it was clear from my post that I don’t hold them responsible for that. Any more, the only acrimony I hold is when Xubuntu is suggested on the forums for someone using a slow Pentium II. In those cases, I can’t help but wonder if the advice comes from someone who doesn’t really know what they’re talking about. …

Anyway, thanks for the note.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:05:12 +0000

I don't think you'll enjoy this, simply because of your attitude (not meant negatively) - you're not part of the target audience. Yes, the Xubuntu Team's idea of light is very different, in that they don't target very old computers. It's supposed to be fast on recent computers, work well on reasonably old computers, and that's it. The Ubuntu base prevents dramatic performance increases, but Xubuntu's goal is also (as is Ubuntu's) to be user-friendly, like Kazehakase is not.

By: johnraff

johnraff — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:40:34 +0000

The upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy was when I was finally forced to agree with you. It was only after uninstalling network-manager-gnome, gnome-power-manager and gnome-screensaver that the system was anything how it was before, and that was followed by quite a bit more clearing out of unwanted stuff.

I’ll be very interested in your review of Xubuntu Intrepid – if it looks usable I might bypass Hardy, otherwise time to move to Openbox or maybe the xfce4 desktop.