WOW Lubuntu / StartUbuntu

[Iberê Fernandes]

2013/6/18 Andre Rodovalho <andre.rodovalho at gmail.com>

> WOW Lubuntu! Uhuuull
>
>
> 2013/6/18 Iberê Fernandes <ibere.fernandes at gmail.com>
>
>> 2013/6/18 Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmail.com>
>>
>>> On 06/18/2013 08:02 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>>> > I'd be more inclined to keep 'our powder dry' for when 13.10 is
>>> released,
>>> > the recent testing of it with ZRam installed is showing that a ubiquity
>>> > (desktop) install is now possible with (much) lower RAM machines than
>>> is
>>> > the case for 13.04. With the lubuntu manual also arriving in 13.10, the
>>> > push to our first LTS is progressing really well and I do believe that
>>> > lubuntu is a smart choice for people coming from a win XP environment.
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> >
>>> > Phill.
>>>
>>> However, those that are still on XP are probably either painted into a
>>> corner or very conservative or both.   Either way, the more time to
>>> prepare, the better.  So if we would start something, the time is
>>> probably now.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> /Lars
>>>
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>>
>>
>> Not so off topic: guess who's #1 according to quidsup ranking from
>> January-June: Lubuntu, 87%.
>>
>> Kind of strange once Lubuntu 13.04 was launched on....errr, April, 2013.
>> But well, it's nice to be #1.
>>
>> Congratulations to everybody that's making it possible!
>>
>> Shared from our official channel at:
>> https://plus.google.com/communities/102737741860934586009?cfem=1
>>
>> Video at
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftxY1WO-pDo
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Iberê
>>
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Before we start complaining what the guy said about Lubuntu, let me say
what I think about Lubuntu once I consider myself a newcomer.

My passion for Lubuntu started at Lubuntu 11.10. I was a Windows XP/Windows
7/Ubuntu 10.04 user.

Lubuntu is rock solid, stable, safe, and most important: FAST in a 5,5
years old Core2Duo T7300 laptop.

Boring? Not for me.

Easy? Yes, if you're open minded  and curious. Do not start Lubuntu
thinking you're running Ubuntu with Unity (which I believe is the default
OS of the quidsup guy)

But here lies one important thing I'd like to share with you: essence
versus appearance.

For me it's much more important to run something safe and stable than
eyecandy, unsafe, unstable. But that's me.

As a social scientist, I can say people, by nature, tend to prefer
appearance at first. That's of course a huge mistake if we're thinking of
long term evolution, long term relationships.

Thinking of WOW Lubuntu:
Yes, there's NO needing to buy new hardware.

Besides, I would show ways to personalize and add some eyecandy stuff to
Lubuntu. Of course it's not hard to find by myself, but sometimes it's
tricky to add:

- conky: what's the best setup in order to have it not minimized when "show
desktop" button is pressed? how do i stop conky from vanishing when i click
on the desktop?
http://fauzimh.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/lubuntu-little-tweaks-1/

- dock: cairo-dock, plank or docky? which one works best?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2061368

- launcher: synapse, kupfer? what's the best for the ones missing a
dash/unity launcher? one depends on zeitgeist, the other do not. does it
matter for someone looking for eyecandy coming from windows? I tend to say
no.

- compositing: xcompmgr or compton?
http://www.lubuntutips.com

Note the links I pasted above are just examples that kind of worked to me.
I'm sure you may know even better solutions.

Of course I'm not saying we need to add those to Lubuntu. I like it light
and fast, specially on a Celeron M 1200 MHZ from 2002.

But some people coming from others OSs might want to add those eyecandy
stuff and a person must be curious and persevering in order to find the
eyecandy apps that fits like a glove with Lubuntu. Screencasts helped me a
lot (thank you Leszek!)

Are Windows users that curious and persevering? Well, I'm sure you know the
answer.

Linux is not Windows? Sure... but we also want to grow, right?

Bug free? Pls, someone define bug free once I think everything is prone to
bugs.

Everytime a person come to me an say: Lubuntu is boring, lacks eyecandy...
I show my desktop and some desktops from a fellow of Lubuntu Official at
Facebook.

My desktop some weeks ago, I prefer to add another LxPanel as a dock, it's
lighter and faster than other docks:
http://i.imgur.com/E0ssmzs.jpg

Lubuntu Official examples of eyecandy:
1 -
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=520096578037912&set=gm.520240198032805&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf

2-
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=518556208191949&set=gm.518665218190303&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf


After that, usually the same person changes his mind and starts asking: how
can I do that?

My 2 cents...

Cheers,
Iberê
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