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Ubuntu Light - advice request.

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  • Toxteth_OGrady
    Toxteth_OGrady Posts: 3,958 Forumite
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    ...and to compare apples with apples one of the biggest draws on resources in a distro is the selected desktop environment (DE) - Gnome, Mate, Cinnamon, KDE, xfce, lxde inter alia.

    That's why I specifically recommended Mint with xfce.

    HTH
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  • gonzo127
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    lubuntu! really light weight AND is a official ubuntu distro, it can run on 128mb of ram (although it is slow) but runs just fine on 256mb ram and above
    Drop a brand challenge
    on a £100 shop you might on average get 70 items save
    10p per product = £7 a week ~ £28 a month
    20p per product = £14 a week ~ £56 a month
    30p per product = £21 a week ~ £84 a month (or in other words one weeks shoping at the new price)
  • Toxteth_OGrady
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    @OP

    I would recommend you give the various distros a quick try as live CD/DVD to see what you would get on with in terms of speed, ease of use and apps you need and then decide which one to install.
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  • GunJack
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    Mint 13 with xfce is what I'm running...it's a nice OS, and behaves more "windows-like" than other distros, which is in itself handy for a linux novice (of which I am one, in all honesty :) )
    ......Gettin' There, Wherever There is......

    I have a dodgy "i" key, so ignore spelling errors due to "i" issues, ...I blame Apple :D
  • 50Twuncle
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    I am downloading Mint 14 xfce now - which should be OK (The laptops are a minimum 1Ghz processor with 512Mb / 1Gb RAM so should fly.....)
    What I am concerned about is the similarity (or lack of..) with Ubuntu - which I am fairly used to.... ??
  • Toxteth_OGrady
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    21Twinkle wrote: »
    What I am concerned about is the similarity (or lack of..) with Ubuntu - which I am fairly used to.... ??

    Again that depends on which aspect of Ubuntu you like or don't like. As I've already said the look, feel and usability of Linux is virtually infinitely configurable.

    For example a Windows 8 user might get on with the Ubuntu Unity GUI whereas a traditional Linux user would probable hate it.

    http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ubuntu+unity&hl=en&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=aEXQUMTCE4a00QXS4YDIAw&ved=0CFEQsAQ&biw=1882&bih=1085
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  • GunJack
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    As a dyed-in-the-wool Windows user, I found Mint pretty easy to pick up and use productively, albeit only web-browsing, music, moving files around and accessing them which I found was more akin to Windows than ubuntu, and probably why I didn't get on too well when I tried ubuntu before settling on Mint :)
    ......Gettin' There, Wherever There is......

    I have a dodgy "i" key, so ignore spelling errors due to "i" issues, ...I blame Apple :D
  • 50Twuncle
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    I have used Windows from version 3 (back in about 1992) so feel confident that I can cope with most issues - but discovered Ubuntu a few months ago and quite like it - it is so much faster than Windows (of any flavour) - so am quite looking forwards to this ....
  • GunJack
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    Twinkle, you sound similar to me in a way....so I don't think you'll be disappointed with Mint :)
    ......Gettin' There, Wherever There is......

    I have a dodgy "i" key, so ignore spelling errors due to "i" issues, ...I blame Apple :D
  • 50Twuncle
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    I will let you know how I get on.....
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