[lubuntu-users] favorite flavor

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 20 May 2018 10:16:15 -0700, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
>On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 06:57:54PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:  
>> Let alone that *buntu users might start with e.g. a server
>> image to do a tailored desktop install, while OTOH Ubuntu Budgie is
>> that new, that it's unlikely worse to count it yet, if you want to
>> get a real impression of the users' needs. Let alone that Ubuntu of
>> different releases ships with a different desktop environment, that
>> not necessarily is good covered by "inactive flavour". IOW so or so
>> this poll does result in a completely meaningless statistic.    
>
>It's a perfectful meaningful statistic for what's referred as an
>"informal, fun poll" concerning only official flavors. The set you
>describe is not an official flavor. I wouldn't consider vanilla Ubuntu
>a flavor (sorry but "plain" is not a flavor). Inactive flavors are only
>for those official flavors that aren't currently releasing, such as
>Edubuntu and Mythbuntu. In any case, I'd continue conversations like
>this on that poll.  

Actually for the supported releases trusty (EOL April 2019) and xenial
(EOL April 2021) Ubuntu GNOME is a flavour, for those releases Ubuntu
still ships with Unity. Apart from this such polls exclude the majority
or minority (we don't know) of Ubuntu users who don't stay with a
default of any flavour. I installed from the server image and unchecked
as much of it's default packages as possible and after that installed
what I want, btw. no DE at all, plain openbox, but with e.g. lxpanel (+
fbpanel).

What's meaningful with an "informal, fun poll", let alone that this
poll is at least not announced at Ubuntu Studio users, Kubuntu users,
Xubuntu users, Ubuntu users and perhaps other *buntu users lists, too.