SSD migration boot option problem

[lazer100]

On 26-Feb-13 06:17:02 Avi Greenbury wrote:
>lazer100 wrote:
>> On 26-Feb-13 04:40:58 Avi Greenbury wrote:
>> >lazer100 wrote:
>> >> >Actually I think, Ubuntu tries to become more like MacOS than Windows. 
>> >> >Perhaps you should have a look at the other Ubuntu flavours: Kubuntu, 
>> >> >Lubuntu, Xubuntu.
>> >> 
>> >> what is the idea of these versus the standard Ubuntu?
>> 
>> >They ship with KDE, LXDE and XFCE as their window managers, rather
>> >than the Unity that standard Ubuntu ships with.
>> 
>> as its a major ordeal to install each, can you give some hints
>> as to what I would gain from each of these?
>> 

>You can install each on any install of Ubuntu by installing one of
>their meta-packages: 

>  xubuntu-desktop - XFCE
>  lubuntu-desktop - LXDE
>  ubuntu-desktop  - Unity (or, pre 11.04, Gnome 2)
>  kubuntu-desktop - KDE

>Installing any of those on a system will add to the list of choices on
>the log-in screen. Of course, this may be as much of an ordeal as a
>complete install :)

>It's hard to explain what you'd gain from each; XFCE and LXDE both aim
>for a lightweight experience at the expense of prettiness. LXDE is the
>lighter of the two at the expense of completeness.

>KDE's just a bit weird :) There's lots of widgets and transparency and
>other such modern (and relatively heavy) stuff going on.

>There's no real way to do much of an objective comparison; you just
>need to try them to find out which you prefer.

I may try the XFCE then.

I dont like having too many options, preferably one option which is good!

I often find that the keyboard with tab completion is faster than
using a GUI. if you use a GUI you have to wait for the icon images to load,
and then waste time looking for the icon,

with Windows I usually use the list view, its much faster to find things
with the list view because its one alphabetical column,

antelope.txt
bear.txt
camel.txt
dragon.txt
elephant.txt
fish.txt
giraffe.txt


for photos I use thumbnails, as the photo names are things like photo043.jpg
etc,


I think *nix was originally entirely shell based. icons first appeared
with the Apple Mac which was a few years after Unix.

icons are good for some things and up to a point,


if you have a lot of different icon images, not thumbnails, then
a list view is usually faster, especially if you dont use an icon much
and thus dont remember the picture, but you usually will remember the name.

eg I remember the Firefox icon,
but many icons I dont remember. with programs also I prefer text tabs,
to hieroglyphs. if you use a lot of different programs, hieroglyphs
can become confusing. I have YAM configured to text buttons:

incoming, outgoing, sent, archived,
read, reply, archive, delete, get mail,

much more efficient than some contrived images,

to write an email from scratch, I click "outgoing", then click "write"