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Install: min Xubuntu 18.04 (Beaver), root partition 3.9GBytes.

Updated LTS twice, now 22.04.1 (Jellyfish): root partition - 6.3 GBytes. There's the problem, right there!

Further update - 23.04...

Yes, I've been looking for a minimum install of standard Ubuntu, in the end settling for a mini.iso of the 2012 release, and upgrading twice to the current LTS version (22.04.01 or whatever it's...

OK, thanks for all the fish, I've gone with the separate partition route. This after more fuss in Xubuntu 21.04 than with the default Ubuntu initial install. These systems still have issues with...

That's an interesting thought. Boot into the Ubuntu system and choose a new account at system boot login? This would setup a separate /home/username tree but retain the application/settings area....

But where's the fun in that?

I'm trying to setup a new machine here. Now I'm torn between using the default Ub desktop, or installing & using the Xubuntu version (of 21.04 latest).

Now in order to keep options open the choice...

Working with high resolution displays has been an issue for years (since they were invented!). Few distros handle them well, Ubuntu being one. Xubunto - not so much!

Yes, updating the guest additions package (reported as moving from 6.0.10 to 6.0.14) and repeating the install method using the VB guest install virtual cd improves things still further; now I have a...

Thanks for the hint re graphics controller, that made a difference! Although the full screen doesn't work properly, I now can use the 'adjust screen' mode (Host + a) to get the window covering the...

https://websiteforstudents.com/installing-virtualbox-guest-additions-on-ubuntu-18-10-18-04-16-04-lts/

My Xubuntu install is a VM running under VirtualBox on a Windows host. The guest additions package is installed. The choice of display screen sizes does not include the native 2560x1440 of the...

Well its about time the responsible devs for the mini ISO woke up to the UEFI booting system we've had in place for nearly ten years. Maybe they need to go on a course. The other irritating factor is...

Now how come the downloaded version of Xubuntu18.04 recognises the EFI setup properly and can boot in UEFI mode, whereas the mini iso tool will only boot in legacy, and installs a system in legacy...

Glad to see you fixed most problems in the end. But why change from xubuntu to the parent ubuntu/unity?

I don't understand from your reply what the point of including it was - it seems to be less functional than xscreensaver, and than using the login screen to switch users (how many users actually work...

The default install of 12.04 is very light on themes (settings ->appearance ->style.) What's the best/quickest way to install a decent number of alternatives?

What's this lightlocker doing for me? It's installed without explanation in 14.04 and I can't see any function that wasn't in xscreensaver. How do I set screensavers in Lightlocker or do I run both...

I can't believe we're still getting posts on a thread that started nearly eight years ago! What's so hard about smoothing fonts - MS-Windows have had ClearType for years and even Linux distros are...

The remix package seems to contain just:
/usr/share/doc/ubuntu-netbook-remix/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/ubuntu-netbook-remix/copyright
although there is a dependent package ubuntu-netbook that...

On that specific point clearly win8 is not yet finished, there's a lot of polishing yet to do. Win7 is finished and I use that most of the time (shhhhh!). But some of the design effort that's gone...

My point is that the remix interface in 10.04 is far from nasty, I rather like it, and anyway we should have choice, no? Why hide the option from us?

Thanks for your thoughts everyone!

I was playing with the latest Consumer Preview of Win8 last week; it looks so smart and polished, it makes distros based on traditional Applications/Places/Desktop menus look old fashioned. Fuduntu...

Yes I know this, but I wonder why all (most) copies of this on various systems seem to have been removed! Are they ashamed of it? They shouldn't be!


Yes I thought of installing Lubuntu - I could...

I am just running through various possibilities for a light fast system on my Dell Mini-10v (1GB RAM, 1GHx Atom processor); after some time using Fuduntu I'm looking for a change. My partner here...

With no bootloader on a particular partition, every time you install a new distro to it the UUID will change so the 'master' grub needs to run anyway.

If you have grub on a partition generating...