WOW Lubuntu / StartUbuntu

Tue Jun 18 21:05:54 UTC 2013

+1

The most (to me) wonderful thing about lubuntu is that it will run, as
standard, on a low resource (old) computer. What people then do to
customise it is up to them. It's called choice and people from Win / Mac
are not used to this freedom. The old story still holds true.....
http://linuxgazette.net/issue45/orr.html :D

Regards,

Phill.

On 18 June 2013 20:23, Iberê Fernandes <ibere.fernandes at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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