What are you actually going to be doing on your netbook? Just surfing or other shizzle too?
What we're talking about here is Desktop Environments (DE)...KDE is (IMO) bloated and with too many gimcky cartoony icons etc.GNOME is (also IMO) bloated, but looks nicer/slickerXfce4 is lightweight and nice and slick.Ignore the differences between Ubuntu (GNOME) /Kubuntu (KDE) / Xubuntu (Xfce) they all have the same under the hood but use a different DE.Because netbooks aren't the most powerful things in the world both Eeebuntu (I think) and definitely Kuki are both built on Xubuntu and therefore use Xfce as the default Desktop Environment so as not to unnecessarily waste resources.UNR (Ubuntu Netbook Remixed) probably uses NetworkManager (not checked though) so you may want to check and knock it off the list if so.
The windows 7 beta on my acer aspire one is about to expire
It's starting to sounds like Kuki is the way to go. Obviously I can play around with the DE.
You're not on 8 yet?
i'm on 10
Have had a little play with Moblin (booting from a thumb drive) on my NC10. Any opinions on this slackers?http://moblin.org
BB - I give you one week using Linux and trying to get CAD/video editing software working before you are back in the land of Microsoft
Besides which there is always VirtualBox.
Quote from: slack---line on February 03, 2010, 07:08:35 amBesides which there is always VirtualBox.What are you on about? You would never run a virtual setup on a netbook, it just doesn't have the power to cope. Either dual boot or commit to using just one OS.
Quote from: Tris on February 02, 2010, 08:52:40 pmBB - I give you one week using Linux and trying to get CAD/video editing software working before you are back in the land of Microsoft I think there was perhaps a touch of sarcasm (which for once I detected!) in suggesting a netbook would be used for CAD and serious video editing. Besides which there is always VirtualBox.
I installed Kuki last night and I have to say that the install was completely painless. Sadly, I can't say the same about the user experience. My windows-centric brain can't get used to a new way of doing things and I'm struggling in a few key areas.1) Installing stuff - ok, i go to add/remove because double-clicking on a downloaded installer is no longer an option. The trouble is that I can't figure out where the OS is getting the installable options from! Is it a standard list that downloads from the web when you tick them? Are they preloaded and just need ticking in order to unpack? VLC and firefox being examples. What do you do if they aren't in the list?
2) Network shares. Using the file manager included with the DE, I can't figure out how to connect to a network share on my NAS - grrrrrr!
3) the keyboard setup is wrong and it took ages to find the backslash in order to confirm that I can't get to my nas by typing \\nas\public into the address bar of the filemanager. How can i sort it out?!
I'm sure there are more, but those are the most pressing ones.
Cheers Slackers, much appreciated.
One more thing. I had a notification that I should update to the latest version of Ubuntu. Should I? Will it upset all the AAO customisations in Kuki?
If something breaks who wants to spend the time sifting through forums to get it fixed?
My main gripe was with Network manager which was a ball ache.