A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by pizza234 on Thursday April 26, 2018 @10:04AM (#16931938)

XFCE is slowly dying, and I think the issues are a symptom of this.

The file manager, for a very long time, had a reproducible issue (>20% of the time) where moving a file would cause a crash; based on the Ubuntu bug tracker, took an year and half to fix, and it was (appropriately) marked as critical.

It's clearly lacks development resources (and I also personally question the development quality).

I still use XUbuntu, but I think the future for low-resource machines will be LUbuntu (lowest power) and MATE (low power). MATE is also well funded, well organized, and very configurable.

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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by apple4ever on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:33AM (#16932789)

I absolutely love MATE, even for high power machines.

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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by sampo on Thursday April 26, 2018 @12:11PM (#16933175)

The Gnome file manager (Nautilus) works just fine with the Xfce desktop as well. I use the Xubuntu desktop, but I use the Gnome apps instead of the Xfce apps.

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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by pizza234 on Friday April 27, 2018 @04:26AM (#16939253)

It does, but it's a hack, as there are integration problems. Thunar is still tightly integrated with the desktop, so if one uses an alternative file manager, operation like copying from the desktop and pasting into the (alternative) file manager won't have any effect.

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