Xubuntu offers appealing desktop alternative
Sometime earlier this year my notebook, a low-end IBM R50e, got slow. It used to be reasonably zippy and Ubuntu worked extremely well on it. Then it just became downright sluggish and applications would often take ages to open.
At the time I was running Ubuntu Dapper. I had tried Ubuntu Edgy but finally gave up, concluding that the low specs and limited memory (256MB) on my laptop were just not up to it. This was not before Edgy almost drove me over the edge completely. So I stuck with Dapper which was reasonably quick when first installed but quickly deteriorated. Finally a few days ago, as I was staring into space waiting for Evolution to open a new email, it became obvious that it was time for a re-install.
But having gone through the pain, and failure, of trying to install Ubuntu Edgy, I decided to look for an alternative. And as much as I wanted something a little lighter on resources I'm not really in the game for a command-line distro. I need a little eye candy and I appreciate a good looking operating system that gets the job done.
Which is how I ended up downloading a copy of Xubuntu, the Ubuntu derivative built using the XFCE desktop environment and explicitly claiming to be lighter and nimbler than other Ubuntu versions.
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So I started thinking. How can I make these computers functional again? While I had never really used a Linux distribution, I was quite familiar with the Linux philosophy. After a day of posting questions to ubuntuforums.com, I settled upon the distribution Xubuntu, which is stripped down OS built for older machines. I now have five previously dead machines resurrected and working again — navigating modern web sites and all.
I am totally satisfied with my Linux experience to this point. What these computers lack in power, they make up for in simplicity and ease of use.
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