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[Walter Lapchynski <wxl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah well honestly, I think Lubuntu's approach to things is a LOT
easier than Kubuntu. If you find something that doesn't just work in
the GUI, it's kind of messy. I think all users should feel empowered
enough to use the command line. The fact that they have control over
their system is something they should celebrate not fear, but that's a
whole different discussion. :)1

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Istimsak Abdulbasir
<saqman2060@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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