Almost by accident, I tried Xubuntu for the first time in years when I installed it on an old, old Micron for my mom’s use while she’s visiting. I was pleasantly surprised by the absence of Open Office and Evolution and the presence of Ubuntu Indicators (what the heck were Gnome developers thinking)!
It looked so nice that I decided to install it on my Aspire One! Along with Ubuntu Indicators, Gwibber becomes a worthy replacement for the apparently moribund Pino. Pidgin (just enable the plugin) and Thunderbird also work with Indicators. Auto-hiding dock at the bottom of the screen! Memory usage apparently under control! Beautiful!
Get it here, create a bootable, live usb flash drive and install it. Then follow my Lucid instructions for modifying /etc/default/grub to get the fan under control and the card reader working.
7/11/11 Update: Gwibber is currently broken for Twitter so instead I have been using TweetDeck with Chromium.
ZG5 in Seoul
June 6, 2011
OK, I’ll probably try it out, then. Thanks for the tip.
Have you tried Skype on it?
aspireonezg5
June 6, 2011
I have not — I’m not much of a Skype user. I tend to install it only when I need to talk to a friend in the UK.
ZG5 in Seoul
June 6, 2011
Fair enough, thanks anyway.
ZG5 in Seoul
June 1, 2011
So would you suggest Xubuntu over Lubuntu these days?
aspireonezg5
June 1, 2011
Yes, I’m quite liking Xubuntu. In fact, I’ve got it on all my computers now. It has the right mix of applications for me and has a small footprint and I like the interface.