The theme does have notable improvements. As for differences many changes take place that you may not even realise - the newest versions of all the packages (new libreoffice too), newer kernel etc. Changes aren't necessarily always visual, often to fix bugs or improve reliability. Joshua <div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 8, 2012 6:36 PM, "Neil Winchurst" <<a href="mailto:neilwin@drofle.co.uk">neilwin@drofle.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> At home there is a laptop running Mint Xfce (wife) another laptop running Xubuntu (daughter) and my desk top computer which is running an old version of Mint KDE. It is time to update [1] so I have been looking at various distros and checking them via VBox. I do like KDE but it is getting just too bloated recently so I have decided to go to Xubuntu on the desk top. I really like Xfce and we don't mention Gnome, Cinnamon or Mate please. As for Unity .....!! Version 12.04 of Xubuntu seems very good and my daughter is well pleased with it. Now version 12.10 is out, but I can't see a great difference compared to the earlier version. Would anyone on the list like to compare the two versions of Xubuntu please? V12.04 is a LTS until 2015 whereas v12.10 is supported till next year as far as I can see. On the other hand I have worked with v12.04 for my daughter so I know it quite well. But v12.10 is newer although there may not be much difference, so you see my quandary. So if any of the experts out there would like to help me decide I will be very grateful. Neil [1] When I say update I mean a fresh install. -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>