Questions about Ubuntu 18.04 live/install ISO

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 16:34, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>
> 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.

Unity, like GNOME 3, needs hardware OpenGL. If your machine doesn't
have a 3D card with a working driver, then it will run badly.

This includes basically all VM setups, unfortunately.

This is also true of Cinnamon.

KDE comes with hardware compositing on by default but you can turn it off.

XFCE, MATE and LXDE/LXQT all support it but come with it off by
default and do not materially benefit from it. Just some extra
visuals, such as transparency effects.

> 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.

Fair enough. I have tried Enlightement a number of times, but it
doesn't do anything I want or need and it's more work to configure.
The desktop that delivers the most bang for the buck, for me, and
needs the least setup, for me, is XFCE and so that's what I use at
work.

Emacs sounds ideal but I can't get past the terrible 1970s UI.

I would like this to happen:
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/modernization.html

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