Xubuntu 11.10 Review - Linux Distro Reviews

A review of the Xfce variant of Ubuntu known as Xubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot. Overall, a very lightweight, stable, well-performing distribution that utilises GTK 3 but still provides a user experience very similar to GNOME 2.x. Definitely a very nice option for anyone sick of 'futuristic and newbie friendly desktops'.

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[AcouBass]

Hi, I've watched a couple of your vids - I'm looking for a Linux distro for my dad's computer. I gave him a Ubuntu 11.10 disk, and after installing it ran a little too slowly (His computer's fairly old, around Windows XP era, though it does have 1GB RAM we shoved in) So I'm looking for something that'll run on an older, slower computer. Would Xubuntu do the trick? I'm trying to stick close to Ubuntu because I've not used much else and I can help when things go wrong. Any other recommendations?

[InfinitelyGalactic]

@AcouBass Yup, definitely give Xubuntu a go, and if that's still too heavy, Lubuntu is lighter still...and slightly more like XP.

[pulsarf]

please give me the name of the keyboard App launcher

[InfinitelyGalactic]

@pulsarf Synapse

[vranoxxx]

1 thing bothers me here... HOW TO REMOVE or CHANGE the highlighted text color on desktop icons... is it possible?? help? :O

[dalexandruz]

@AcouBass

I actually went back to the classical gnome shell which has the panels. In the terminal just type without the quotes "sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback" which is the classical or "sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback" which is gnome but old unity. Once you do this you have to logout, once at the log in screen click on the gear and select classical gnome which uses less resources and less video driver bugs.

[AcouBass]

@dalexandruz Oddly enough, we put Linux Mint in with the Opensource graphic drivers and it runs super-fast on his machine - We tried Lubuntu, and it was really nippy but even he felt it was a bit too basic.

Just shows what Unity really does to slow your computer down I think, I don't notice it too much on mine but if your computer's slightly sub-standard Ubuntu seems to be wayyyy too heavy =(

[dalexandruz]

@AcouBass

If you don't have the video drivers installed on xubuntu 11.10 than your xfce or gnome will run slow otherwise just use pure debian with xfce or lxde should run faster without video drivers.

[Abstractational]

Does this wallpaper come with it? The rainbow grid one. Like it a lot.

[y2k8vortex]

If you don't mind me asking, this question was probably already answered but i'll ask anyway...

What is the main difference between Ubuntu and Xubuntu?

Which Linux distro do you recommend the most and for what do you recommend it?

[satansstigma]

Xubuntu 12.04 rocks even harder than 11.10. 11.10 is sluggish compared to 12.04, which zips along like Debian. I was using LMDE XFCE (running SID), but I missed the Ubuntu ppas, so I gave the 12.04 Alpha 2 a try and I am not looking back now.

[ElMapachePirata]

@Technoobzdotcom thanks for the advise, I'll give openSUSE another try, and if I'm able to run it correctly on my imac I'll try Arch too.

Greetings from Galicia.

[Technoobzdotcom]

@ElMapachePirata part 2: if it wasn't because I started out with backtrack and never started out with pure Ubuntu I might of have gotten lazy and not learned as much..but back to your question..Arch would be great to learn about linux hard core...OpenSuSe as well, I know you tried it but OpenSuSe will also make you use the terminal..Good luck on finding your path..It has seem now a days I'm jumping from distro to distro cause of the whole unity/gnome-shell thing.still using backtrack..good luck

[Technoobzdotcom]

@ElMapachePirata you can learn from any distro, it just all depends on the user aka YOU..when i got started in linux a few years ago I wanted to become a pentester so when i looked up pentester in google alot of things came up with the word BackTrack.so that's how i got started in linux with backtrack3, but most ppl get angry cause things don't work the way they want them to work.in backtrack 3 and 4 It made me learn alot of terminal commands that help me today.