xubuntu 8.10 desktop environment
We celebrated our 17th – yes seventeenth – wedding anniversay last Saturday (because we had the day free – the actual date is the 14th). Saw “Watchmen”. Had dinner. Walked over to Barnes and Noble. I bought a copy of Linux Identity which came with several versions of Ubuntu Linux. Yes one can download all these for free. But it is nice to have them all in one convenient package and comes with a magazine that offers some installation/configuration tips.
For years I preferred KDE. Then came KDE 4 which resembles the Vista interferace and is just as frustratingly clumsy. Thought I would try xubuntu because Xfce uses so few system resources – it is lean clean mean and fast. (Although you get nowhere near the features of KDE.)
I love it.
I installed xubuntu 8.10. And then added GNOME and KDE. Rather than install Ubuntu or Kubuntu and then add Xfce. Works great. In fact I am typing this post on my Linux box in Xfce.
There is one colossal piece missing from Xfce however. An easy way to browse a network – especially a Windows network. GNOME (Dolphin) and KDE make this a breeze. Not sure how to do this in Xfce.
UPDATE (03/12/2009): Although the Xfce file manager Thunar cannot browse Samba shares nevertheless Dolphin is available within Xfce – so all is well.
