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[Istimsak Abdulbasir <saqman2060@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, we will concentrate on "ease of use". I stopped kubuntu a long time
ago. Did not fall under the current objective.

However, the advanced user discussion will come later.
On Mar 5, 2015 6:27 PM, "Walter Lapchynski" <wxl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
> >> >> --
> >> >> Brendan Perrine <walterorlin@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> >>
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