[xubuntu-users] Back Home to Stay

[J. Michael Stanley]

Yes. I have tried other distros and have come back to Xubuntu. Works straight out of the box and is fast too. Once you've explored your way round, it can be tweaked to your liking. Since it sits on Debian/Ubuntu,  There are of course loads of applications too. Well done all you developers. Mike

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  On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 0:40, Artim<artimboy at gmail.com> wrote:     Hello fellow Xubuntu users/developers, fanboys and fangirls,
 
 I have been away for far too long.  I wandered among other distros and learned quite a bit, from Slackware (actually SalixOS - "for Lazy Slackers") to PCLinuxOS, Manjero, MX-Linux, antiX, Debian, and a few derivatives like Mint, Linux Lite, LXLE, etc.  In between, whenever I needed my computers to "just work" for school or play, I would run home to Xubuntu until wanderlust overtook me again and off I'd go.  Or I would read some article that would scare the snot out of me about systemd or something, and run away from Debian/Ubuntu like a scalded dog, until guess what?  It made no difference with or without systemd most of the time.  Salix was the only exception, and it didn't make enough of a difference to matter.
 
 But again, probably for the last time, my distro-hopping days are over, and where have I ended up?  Right back to Xubuntu, as it has always been my "go-to" distro when others left me uncertain or unsatisfied.  I started on Ubuntu, but found it very resource-hungry.  The first time I installed Xubuntu, it was perfect right out of the box, no tweaking needed, and all I did was add some wallpapers!  It quickly became "home" to me.
 
 Since 9.04, so I guess it's been 10 years already, omygosh!  It doesn't seem like that long.  Anyway, I'm "home" to stay, and I do a little more tweaking than I used to to make it my own.  Like adding Seamonkey (did you know it does everything Firefox and Thunderbird both do, but with thousands fewer lines of code?), reducing swappiness, turn off services I don't use (like Bluetooth), stuff like that.  Start to finish, done in about an hour.  It still amazes me, since doing the same thing with Debian took days to figure out!
 
 I'm a fan, and always will be.  I blogged about recently too, and bragged on Xubuntu on the Diaspora social network.  Since this is my first post and I may not be allowed to post links to this group, find me on Ubuntu Forums, username "Artim," and click on my signature to find my blog and read my boasts about Xubuntu.
 
 Thanks one and all!
 
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