Ubuntu netbook edition or desktop edition ?

[Donald Talbert]

On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 10:55 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:35:41 +0100
> Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:
> 
> > Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> > > I keep hearing that.  I have my non-Unity panels set to disappear
> > > when not moused-over.  Where may more vertical space be had for me?
> > 
> > You lose it, in fact, since the unty panel/menu bar is thicker than a
> > normal in-window menu bar, and you can neither make it thinner nor
> > set it to autohide.
> > 
> 
> Such was my own supposition.  In fact, I find that there is /less/
> screen 'real estate' using Unity, both vertical and horizontal, /not
> more/ as is bandied about.
> 
> Cybe R. Wizard
> -- 
> Nice computers don't go down.
> 	Larry Niven, Steven Barnes
> 		"The Barsoom Project"
> 

Really... its about 20pixels your talking with tweaking, . I don't see
how there's a loss horizontally? The bar is only there when no programs
need that space, you know that right? 

I mean really guys, if your going to cut me down on giving honest advice
to the OP on which version (He didn't specify customizing, tweaking,
etc) he should use for his netbook, then he might as well just not start
x, maybe even rebuild his kernel while hes at it to save a few MB of
ram. ;)

So, if you already knew your own answer why did you ask Cybe? I'm here
to help, hence the "technical support only mailing list" not debate. It
almost seems like some people jump in just because its unity, hah, just
sayin'...

@OP, theres a Distribution of Linux thats made & tuned especially for
EEEPCs that I hear good things about often. I haven't tried it but its
called Aurora (Used to be called EEEBuntu before, but there was some
issues with Ubuntu and EEEpcs at the time regarding Intel Integrated
Graphics). Heres a link to the wiki. Good luck. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28operating_system%29