The Decline of Usability

Re:The Decline of Usability by imhoguy on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:57PM (#22902910)

I highly recommend trying out other flavours of Ubuntu: Xubuntu (XFCE), Lubuntu (LXDE), Kubuntu (KDE), Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie. Next week all should get 20.04 LTS release.

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Re:The Decline of Usability by thanatropism on Friday April 17, 2020 @05:51PM (#22903305)

I don’t understand why you need different distributions for different DEs.

The only distro I’ve used past teenage is Ubuntu. I alternate stints of maybe 2 years with Windows, 2 years with Ubuntu. First thing I do after installing the most recent LTS Ubuntu is “apt install spectrwm”.

Spectrwm is not even particularly good — everyone tells me to use xmonad instead — but I know how to get it in usable shape in about half an hour. This after many moons of exclusively using Windows.

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Re:The Decline of Usability by RedShift1 on Friday April 17, 2020 @08:58PM (#22904435)

They are not different distributions but more like a different edition or "spin" of Ubuntu. They just install a different set of packages.

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Re:The Decline of Usability by distances on Saturday April 18, 2020 @04:11AM (#22906143)

For KDE you're better off with KDE Neon. Still based on Ubuntu, but that's the official KDE distro if you can speak of one.

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