Installing xubuntu on a new WIndows-8 system

[Tom H]

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
>
> Tom, Very late reaction but I just got back from holiday (2 days ago) and
> had to attack a frenzy of activities besides trying to catch up with my mail
> and I have still a lot to go. I had thought to use my laptop on holidays to
> reply but, not having installed Xubuntu on it (yet) I couldn't get my VPN
> connection to work with W8, which, I didn't think it possible, is much more
> of a nightmare than the new Ubuntu dashboard or how they call the UI.
> Literally everything is hidden behind
> nonsense names (e.g. directories are Libraries(??) and command-line actions
> are still DOS and a manual is nowhere to find. Moreover I didn't have
> Internet (no wifi around) and using a telephone dongle was prohibitively
> expensive.
> But thanks for the explanation. I have to study it carefully and will let
> you know how I proceed. I want - for the moment - keep the W8 as, hey, I've
> paid for it(!) and it is not completely useless (I hope).
> I'll keep you and Colin informed to discover the best way of having the best
> of both worlds.

Re Win8: I'm surprised that you couldn't get VPN to work but not THAT
surprised given the weird interface.

Re Unity: I disagree. It's almost as easy and friction-less to use as
OS X. My main complaint, which applies to Gnome Shell too, is that you
have to mess around in dconf-editor (or gsettings if you know the key
names) in order customize some aspects of the interface.

Re your laptop: You're welcome. If it's working, there's no point in
re-formatting and re-installing anything.