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  • Re: Lubuntu vs. Xubuntu: Which Ubuntu flavor is right for you - my expert advice

    From Jim Jackson@jj@franjam.org.uk to comp.os.linux.misc on Tue Jan 6 23:09:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2025-12-26, John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 26 Dec 2025 18:38:04 GMT
    rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    Theoretically. [...] I never tried it but from some forum posts
    adding a DE and trying to uninstall the original DE doesn't work well.

    Ah, the "odds & ends left lying around" class of problems. I've long
    since taken to installing with no GUI components at all and then adding
    what I want after the fact, for essentially that reason.


    Amen to that. My personal setup is lightdm, openbox, the venerable
    xterm, and lxpanel. Don't use a file manager, as I'm happy with the commandline. Most graphical apps work just install and work fine. But
    then I'm not too bothered by the "integration" fad (;-), and I've never
    really understood why all the extra cruft is necessary.

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  • From John Ames@commodorejohn@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Tue Jan 6 15:25:13 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 23:09:25 -0000 (UTC)
    Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> wrote:

    Ah, the "odds & ends left lying around" class of problems. I've long
    since taken to installing with no GUI components at all and then
    adding what I want after the fact, for essentially that reason.

    Amen to that. My personal setup is lightdm, openbox, the venerable
    xterm, and lxpanel. Don't use a file manager, as I'm happy with the commandline. Most graphical apps work just install and work fine. But
    then I'm not too bothered by the "integration" fad (;-), and I've
    never really understood why all the extra cruft is necessary.

    I'll take a file manager, myself; command-line is superior for anything involving mass operations and pattern-matching, but a GUI (or TUI, if
    you prefer one of the curses-based FMs) is easier for picking arbitrary
    files out of a large set.

    (Have actually spent the last week-plus doing both, as I finally got
    around to a spring-clean on 10-12 years' worth of random downloads and
    found myself sorting out images from countless artists with filenames
    in several different formats, at least one of which preserved both case
    and special characters early on, forced lower case at some point, and
    then munged special characters later, and vgrepping to spot duplicates
    along the way. Quite a workout, some ~45k files in total...)

    Have been pretty settled on WindowMaker with SpaceFM and QTerminal for
    some years now; used to use PCManFM and RoxTerm prior to that. Have
    never understood the need for my media player to integrate with the
    kitchen sink over dbus, frankly...

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