[ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu etc .....

[Barry Drake]

Hi there ...  The recent thread on old, slow computers came to mind when 
I installed Trusty in place of 12.04 on my Samsung netbook.  It was 
sightly faster after the upgrade, but still felt very slow at the side 
of my desktop.  It has a single core i386 processor running at about 1.5 
GiHz.

Yesterday, I tried Lubuntu on it.  Provided I stick with the small fast 
applications it comes with, it's brilliant.  I put Thunderbird on it, 
but only so I can port the mailboxes to the default mailer. Even the 
lightweight Abiword is good enough for when I'm away from home.  I can 
put the big programs that I use under Ubunto on the netbook for 
emergency use, but I'm really pleased with it overall. The only downside 
for me is that it as ye doesn't have two finger scrolling.  I've just 
got used to that thanks to you guys.

God bless,        Barry.