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To: ShadowAce

What about Unbuntu?


3 posted on 01/15/2015 10:54:53 AM PST by nomad
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To: nomad

You mean Ubuntu? That is a distribution, which is different from a desktop environment.


5 posted on 01/15/2015 10:58:20 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: nomad

Good question. I’ve been using Ubuntu on my desktop and laptop for over a year. It’s fast and rock stable, and has a good interface. Easy and simple to use.


6 posted on 01/15/2015 11:00:59 AM PST by captain_dave
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To: nomad

Ubuntu uses the Unity desktop in the listing.


11 posted on 01/15/2015 11:23:53 AM PST by whodathunkit
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To: nomad; ShadowAce
I run Xubuntu, which is Ubuntu Linux OS coupled with the XFCE user interface, on at least 3 laptops at home with these old / weak CPUs:

It works well!
14 posted on 01/15/2015 12:02:17 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: nomad

because these are desktop environments not distros.


15 posted on 01/15/2015 12:53:54 PM PST by Chiefwilnel (your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you)
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To: nomad
What about Unbuntu?

Ubuntu is a distribution—a particular "brand" of Linux, if you will. What this article is describing is various desktop environments: the software that defines the look and feel of your desktop.

Ubuntu has official and unofficial releases available that default to one of nearly all the desktops mentioned above. What isn't officially distributed, is fairly easily downloaded and installed. I use Kubuntu, myself—Ubuntu with the KDE desktop:


18 posted on 01/15/2015 1:24:25 PM PST by RansomOttawa (tm)
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