Running Ubuntu on Lenovo Laptops

[Peter Smout]

On 01/04/14 11:09, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 1 April 2014 11:00, Peter Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hope all goes well, please report back any issues, and note that if you
>> which you can install Ubuntu alongside XP and keep XP running on that
>> machine (that doesn't help with XP reaching the end of it's natural life,
>> much as the beloved Gnome 2 did a couple of years back)
>
>
> Agreed with everything Pete S said. I like Unity too, but many people
> just cannot let go of that taskbar-and-start-menu thing. If you're
> like that, well, Lubuntu offers it, Xubuntu /can/ do it but needs
> tweaking, but Mint Cinnamon does it out of the box.
>
> My one small cavil with Pete S's post is that GNOME 2 lives on, and if
> you want it, Mint's Maté edition provides it. No other Ubuntu remix
> offers either of these desktops "out of the box".
>
I thought the GTK2 tool-kit was all but dead due to legal issues with 
them at Redmond, but that is not what this thread is for.....

I agree Linux Mint is a Very good distro, but suffers from the same 
problem as Zorin (another Ubuntu spin-off) in that it's too windoze like 
for me but that again is a personal choice ;¬)

Pete S