Review on Xubuntu, By Jake Lohrke
While slightly less system hogging then full blown Ubuntu, the price is the smooth looks and nice appeal of Ubuntu. Everything in Xubuntu is hard looking and basically screaming with "Office Use."
Though even in that respect it will fail if you use it straight from the install, as it is missing some crucial software in the one respect it would be useful with. officer Software. Xubuntu comes with the basic Abiword word editor and a basic spreadsheet program. in the efforts to save space and system drain, as was Xubuntu's intent, they left out the crucial programs of Open Office.
In the respects of system drain, it does fairly well. On a GX100 the lag is much less noticeable than with normal Ubuntu, but its still there. While it would probably load some things faster than a traditional Windows OS, it just doesn't have the appeal.
As stated, this is a pure no-nonsense OS and made for the bare minimum. Im sure a starting business, or people with not enough Pirating skills to get a copy of XP, will find this a useful OS.
In conclusion, if you've got a crappy machine, Xubuntu will get the basics done,with no fluff, no shine, and no appeal.
(Side Note, Abiword sucks at Typing, as it highlights A LOT of sentences while offering no solutions, leading to the general confusion of whoever is using it.)
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
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This is the kind of post I'd like to see a lot more of. Honest product evaluation based on actual experience. Well done. The only real benefit I can see to using Xubuntu is you get to install apps from both the KDE and the Gnome world (both will work). Major bonus but Jake is right, it's striped to the bare essentials. Open office is not installed because of the system resources it requires. I'm not sure I can live without a good office suite.
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