Increasing user base of Ubuntu desktop.

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:24:33 +0530, Amit wrote:
>There is no menu in the default Ubuntu desktop GUI.

Hi,

I suspect that still several Ubuntu flavours have got an application
menu by default, much likely even for the latest release.
At least Xubuntu 20.04 has got an application menu by default, this is
what I'm using on an USB stick [1].

On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 22:36:27 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>I've found I can't set the font to a larger size without hassles and
>troubles.

This is an issue for all operating systems. An experienced user can
manage this to some extend. Probably by replacing grub with another
bootloader and doing similar things. However, the issue that some apps
don't provide enough space for really large fonts still remains and due
to the diversity of Linux, it's not always easy to set system wide fonts
for all apps, at least not for a newbie. Some apps allow to set the
fonts by their GUI, but if you can't read the preferences in the first
place, you can't change the font size. A screen reader might help, but
has got it pitfalls, too.

Regards,
Ralf

[1]
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ /bin/ls -hAltr /mnt/v1.ventoy/
total 7.9G
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6G Jul 31  2020 xubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan  6  2021 ventoy
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.3G Jan  7  2021 xubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-pers1.dat