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[Istimsak Abdulbasir <saqman2060@xxxxxxxxx>]

I guess that "ease of use" is what is important. Getting things is
accelerated because of the reduction in actually hacking the system. No
need to pull your hair out, for the most part. At least now I have a better
of what I am really dealing with.
On Mar 5, 2015 5:30 PM, "Walter Lapchynski" <wxl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well, I guess you need to ask Ubuntu about that. If we judge it by the
> original plans sabdfl suggested, the idea was to make Linux easy for
> people. It seems this is true. There's much less hackiness to get
> things done (for the most part), lots of configuration options, good
> integration, and let's not forget convergence. I'm not talking about
> the interface (e.g. the fact that we have Mir/Unity on Touch) but the
> fact that that "ease of use" is all over the place. Look at Juju or
> Snappy to get an idea of what I mean.
>
> The unfortunate thing is it's "easy at all costs." I feel that one of
> the costs one faces with Ubuntu is a lot of extra cruft.
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Istimsak Abdulbasir
> <saqman2060@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So lubuntu targets Ubuntu users who like the simplicity of operating a
> Linux
> > OS but with lxde. Now I know the audience for lubuntu what about ubuntu
> in
> > general?
> >
> > On Mar 5, 2015 2:26 PM, "Brendan Perrine" <walterorlin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 19:08:14 +0100
> >> Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> > without [much] tweaking. For licensing reasons the end user must
> install
> >> Yes having network manager work is espically important as you need
> another
> >> machine to get support for every other problem you have with lubuntu as
> it
> >> is all online other than maybe linux user groups. Unfortanely there is
> not a
> >> way to get some broadcom wifi working out ot the box.
> >>
> >> I think a smaller audience is the people who just like lxde because of
> the
> >> interface and not overly animated. I think a file manager is quite
> useful
> >> and improtant to test. In the live session test I try to mount some
> >> partitions and play music or podcasts testing that sound works and that
> you
> >> can read data from live session which might be really helpful is say a
> >> student had there homework and for some reason broke there machine so it
> >> can't boot could still run the live session and print their homework on
> >> another machine. Also sound makes the live session test more enjoyable.
> >> Although it can't be in mp3 format because of codecs.
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> >>
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