i want something really minimalistic

[glandula]

im used to windows classic, frankly kde and gnome annoy me, its all bells and whistles, and everything takes ages to load, animations, graphics, crap. ive been trying some of the supposeedly lightweight stuff but im a total newbie and dont know how to set it up properly

all i want is a full ubuntu desktop with all the applications, but no skins and rubbish...any ideas ? this stuff drove me back to windows (temporarily i hope)

thanks for listening

ps, sorry if this is the wrong forum, i didnt know where to put it

[jasmuz]

im used to windows classic, frankly kde and gnome annoy me, its all bells and whistles, and everything takes ages to load, animations, graphics, crap. ive been trying some of the supposeedly lightweight stuff but im a total newbie and dont know how to set it up properly

all i want is a full ubuntu desktop with all the applications, but no skins and rubbish...any ideas ? this stuff drove me back to windows (temporarily i hope)

thanks for listening

ps, sorry if this is the wrong forum, i didnt know where to put it
if you want a no frills and quick as hell enviroment i recomend you use blackbox

just go to your terminal, and do a sudo apt-get install blackbox.

And when you login, change the GUI on where it says sessions.

That's it.

[bvc]

icewm <wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like window manager>

[Sionide]

XFCE / Fluxbox / Blackbox are the minimalist desktops that I know of...

[m0biu5]

My reading has suggested xfce, but you should check them all out for yourself.

http://www.xfce.org

[benplaut]

ditto on IceWM


nice and zippy, with an interface alot like windows.