On Feb 5, 2008 2:18 PM, Arthur H. Johnson II <<a href="mailto:arthur.johnson@gmail.com">arthur.johnson@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I think the focus should be on making Xubuntu the lightweight Ubuntu-like distro, as well as promoting Xfce.  In other words, I feel that Xfce is the perfect tool to unite all the low-calorie applications together. Being user friendly should take a back seat to bringing Ubuntu to platforms like old laptops, UMPCs, or making hardware with limited resources like new again.<a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel" target="_blank"></a> </blockquote></div> I agree with this. Many of the apps and utilities that are considered "lightweight" are aiming to be so, and aren't necessarily aiming at also being newbie-friendly. More often than not, they assume you know what you're doing.