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Re:A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity by jff on Thursday November 03, 2011 @01:28AM (#3190449)
I never really saw the point of Xubuntu--I mean, 10 minutes in Ubuntu will give you the same thing, why have an whole separate distribution when the biggest change is the default desktop environment?
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Re:A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity by lvillani on Thursday November 03, 2011 @05:32AM (#3190971)
It's not a whole separate distribution. It's akin to Fedora's "spins": an ISO with a different default set of packages. Nothing prevents you from installing Ubuntu proper and then "apt-get install xubuntu-desktop" on it.

I agree, though, that this distinction is not clear enough by reading Xubuntu (or Kubuntu, Edubuntu, etc) websites.

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Re:A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity by jff on Thursday November 03, 2011 @01:31PM (#3192744)
Ah, that definitely makes a lot more sense. Coming from Debian, I'm used to just saying "apt-get install <some window manager>" and switching to it immediately, so the Xubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu thing always tripped me up--but I guess the point isn't that you could do it the way I'm used to, but that you can more easily just grab an ISO to default the way you like it.

Me, I usually just install a very basic Debian and pile crap on top as I go :)

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