Missing Dash/Panel/Launcher

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 at 13:03, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On a low power machine you would probably be better off with one of the less resource hungry flavours.  Lubuntu 18.04 is available in 32 bit I think and goes much better on an old machine.  You could try the live version of that.  Not sure whether you can upgrade to Lubuntu 18.04 from what you have using the live image.  You might have to re-install.

Strongly agree with this.

If it is a very old, low-end machine, then all the modern desktops use
3D compositing with OpenGL (GNOME, Unity, Cinnamon, KDE 5)   and will
run badly or not at all.

The lightest-weight desktops will run fine: LXDE and Xfce.

Lubuntu has a 32-bit version which will use less memory.

Xubuntu does too.

Lubuntu has some bundled themes, I think, to make it look like
Windows, or like GNOME 2, GNOME 3, or Mac OS X.

Personally I just like a vertical taskbar -- both desktops do this fine.

And they don't need 3D acceleration, so your current problems will go away.


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