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Re:Setting Up A Chromebook Development Laptop by AlexeyBrin on Saturday October 05, 2013 @11:24AM (#6500921)
Just don't install Ubuntu on this :). Your students will cry in despair every time their VM will freeze because of Unity. I suppose this is because Unity needs a 3D accelerated graphical card and the VirtualBox emulation doesn't provide all it needs.

Linux Mint with the Mate desktop runs smoothly on cheap Windows hosts.

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Re:Setting Up A Chromebook Development Laptop by pekk on Saturday October 05, 2013 @06:21PM (#6502299)
How on earth did it not occur to you to use a different desktop on Ubuntu, if Unity is causing you such problems?

Do you seriously have to install a different distribution merely in order to switch the desktop you use?

Do you also switch distributions in order to use a different browser or shell?

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Re:Setting Up A Chromebook Development Laptop by AlexeyBrin on Sunday October 06, 2013 @02:33PM (#6504931)
I suppose you know Mint is basically Ubuntu repackaged and with a different default window manager.

I'm more interested in keeping my productivity up than in experimenting with installing various window mangers in Ubuntu.

Ubuntu caused me problems only when I run it in a VM. If you install Ubuntu on a decent physical machine it will run OK.

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Re:Setting Up A Chromebook Development Laptop by call on Sunday October 06, 2013 @06:28PM (#6505712) 

    sudo apt-get install -y xubuntu-desktop
    sudo apt-get install -y lubuntu-desktop
Give me a little while, I think I've exceeded my experimentation quota for today
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Re:Setting Up A Chromebook Development Laptop by AlexeyBrin on Sunday October 06, 2013 @08:14PM (#6505986)
+1

Thanks.

Your commands installs the alternative window managers alongside Unity ? Or they replace Unity ?

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Re:Setting Up A Chromebook Development Laptop by kitana97 on Sunday October 06, 2013 @09:53PM (#6506203)
Replaces Unity.

Here's a few to check out: http://askubuntu.com/questions/65083/what-different-desktop-...

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