Questions about Ubuntu 18.04 live/install ISO

Peter Flynn peter at silmaril.ie
Mon Feb 18 15:32:58 UTC 2019


On 18/02/2019 14:51, Liam Proven wrote:
> Setting aside any anti-Unity feeling (for me it was the best Linux
> desktop ever written, and I miss it badly), it is dead and gone now.

I was never able to use it because it was so bloated it was too slow to
do anything meaningful with on my machine at the time.

> The list of Ubuntu desktops is the same as the list of Fedora desktops now.
> 
> https://www.ubuntu.com/download/flavours
> 
> GNOME by default, and KDE, LXDE, MATE, XFCE plus Budgie and
> 
> https://spins.fedoraproject.org/
> 
> GNOME by default, and KDE, LXDE, MATE, XFCE, plus Cinnamon, LXQt, and OLPC Sugar

On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 at 15:52, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> I don't like the Ubuntu GUI.  (And don't really like a lot of things about 
> Ubuntu in general, but that is neither here nor there.)  I want an OS I can 
> actually use on an everyday basis that does what I want. 

This is why I use Enlightenment. And Emacs. And LaTeX. And lots of other
things that it's fashionable to decry. But I'm no longer a developer,
and I was never an OS developer; I'm a user.

Peter




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