Now looking for an alternative to Xubuntu
Oct. 19th, 2011 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marjaerwinI am pretty sure that part of my problem is the result of the bugs in the installer - which is common across the Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Lubuntu/etc. family - as well as the bugs in Xubuntu itself. I don't know why, but the installer persistently demands a network connection, refuses the only one available, and loops there; using the alternative cd I was able to skip that step but this caused at least one of the bugs on this system, and contributed to others. In this situation, looking to other Linux variations seems wiser, especially if their installers don't share the same design decisions that Ubiquity has.
Xubuntu is interesting, but it is incomplete. Xfce 4.8 has no touchpad support, treating them as PS/2 mice, and treating brushes against them as commands to make the computer go haywire. I installed the psmouse match and some additional applications to work around this. Xfce 4.10 is supposed to fix this. Xubuntu also requires command-line configuration changes to enable something as important as the compose key. This installation is already buggy, and I'm not going to use the command line on it.
Xubuntu is interesting, but it is incomplete. Xfce 4.8 has no touchpad support, treating them as PS/2 mice, and treating brushes against them as commands to make the computer go haywire. I installed the psmouse match and some additional applications to work around this. Xfce 4.10 is supposed to fix this. Xubuntu also requires command-line configuration changes to enable something as important as the compose key. This installation is already buggy, and I'm not going to use the command line on it.
