Converting to Ubuntu

[Andrew Gould]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Bruce Marshall<bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 21 June 2009, David A. Bandel wrote:
>> Personally, I've found both to be a real PITA and just too heavy.  I
>> looked around and found LXDE that seems to be both light and easy for
>> most users.  It also includes the little touches users seem to need to
>> automagically mount, use, and unmount devices (pcmanfm).
>>
>> So I no longer recommend either KDE or Gnome, but LXDE.  Based on
>> openbox, so uses obconf, but apart from that, it's pretty nice.
>
> And I usually load up KDE on kubuntu and then add in XFCE.   Then I run XFCE
> with all of the normal KDE apps.  Works well and is very similar to running
> KDE 3.5.
>
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I've been bouncing around distros for the last month or so.  FreeBSD
is having pains related to hal.  I couldn't, for the life of me,
download a good image of Ubuntu.  The computer I'm using at the moment
is running Xubuntu.

There are meta packages available to install Gnome and KDE.  There are
also meta packages for restricted media that are available for each
desktop environment.  You'll need to update the repository listing in
Synaptic for these packages to appear.

Andrew