Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Lubuntu vs. Xubuntu: Which Ubuntu flavor is right for you - my expert advice Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 15:25:13 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: <20260106152513.00007767@gmail.com> References: <10if6e3$kag3$1@dont-email.me> <10igm6l$10hm7$2@dont-email.me> <10igpir$1086g$16@dont-email.me> <20251226090654.00000d42@gmail.com> <20251226115341.000071a8@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:25:16 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ce6fce244b408b41e7cc12ecf2215473"; logging-data="247627"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18207eAsL1ZbNmXvclckKZ1dlh+7YEg9IU=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:4tUHPO39PPP4uBQBNo+1kRW2zRs= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:80635 On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 23:09:25 -0000 (UTC) Jim Jackson wrote: > > Ah, the "odds & ends left lying around" class of problems. I've long > > since taken to installing with no GUI components at all and then > > adding what I want after the fact, for essentially that reason. > > Amen to that. My personal setup is lightdm, openbox, the venerable > xterm, and lxpanel. Don't use a file manager, as I'm happy with the > commandline. Most graphical apps work just install and work fine. But > then I'm not too bothered by the "integration" fad (;-), and I've > never really understood why all the extra cruft is necessary. I'll take a file manager, myself; command-line is superior for anything involving mass operations and pattern-matching, but a GUI (or TUI, if you prefer one of the curses-based FMs) is easier for picking arbitrary files out of a large set. (Have actually spent the last week-plus doing both, as I finally got around to a spring-clean on 10-12 years' worth of random downloads and found myself sorting out images from countless artists with filenames in several different formats, at least one of which preserved both case and special characters early on, forced lower case at some point, and then munged special characters later, and vgrepping to spot duplicates along the way. Quite a workout, some ~45k files in total...) Have been pretty settled on WindowMaker with SpaceFM and QTerminal for some years now; used to use PCManFM and RoxTerm prior to that. Have never understood the need for my media player to integrate with the kitchen sink over dbus, frankly...