Docaltmed
December 15th, 2011, 07:50 PM
Although I really like my netbook for carrying with me from exam room to exam room, it really wasn't designed to handle the other tasks I am confronted with, from viewing x-rays to analyzing digital biometric data. Then there is Ryzom, but let's not go there.
So I purchased another computer to handle the heavy loads, and I re-focused the netbook to do what it does best, which is interface with my browser-based EMR (OpenEMR, thanks guys!), IM with my staff, and of course, hang out on Ubuntuforums (and Reddit, I'm ashamed to admit).
I'm not a Unity-hater, that's the standard DE in my practice, but I confess to being a bit of a DE philanderer. My personal computer runs Gnome Shell, we have Kubuntu at home...so I figured it was time to look into one of the lightweight DEs, like Lubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.
Honestly, I didn't like either one of those, Lubuntu was just too Gnome 2 for my taste and xfce just looks like a PITA.
Crunchbang was just a little to austere for my tastes. I didn't want to wander too far afield from Debian/Ubuntu...
Then I saw Bodhi Linux. Cute! Enlightenment is a window manager with great gams, and clearly care was taken with the appearance. Even on the Asus eeePC with its 1GB and Atom processor, Bodhi was doggone snappy even running from the live USB.
It was clearly lust at first sight. So I wiped the disk and installed Bodhi, and I couldn't be happier. I added the lightweight app package from the Bodhi app center, and was up in running in something less than an hour. It is perfect for my little netbook for in-office use and chucking into my carry on for conferences.
Congratulations to the Bodhi devs, whoever you are. It is a truly excellent interface, and I would encourage any of you who are still squirming at the thought of Unity or GS to give it a try. It's much more than Gnome 2, but far less intrusive than the other desktops.
I swear, if DEs were wives, I'd be in the poor house for all the alimony I would be paying...
So I purchased another computer to handle the heavy loads, and I re-focused the netbook to do what it does best, which is interface with my browser-based EMR (OpenEMR, thanks guys!), IM with my staff, and of course, hang out on Ubuntuforums (and Reddit, I'm ashamed to admit).
I'm not a Unity-hater, that's the standard DE in my practice, but I confess to being a bit of a DE philanderer. My personal computer runs Gnome Shell, we have Kubuntu at home...so I figured it was time to look into one of the lightweight DEs, like Lubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.
Honestly, I didn't like either one of those, Lubuntu was just too Gnome 2 for my taste and xfce just looks like a PITA.
Crunchbang was just a little to austere for my tastes. I didn't want to wander too far afield from Debian/Ubuntu...
Then I saw Bodhi Linux. Cute! Enlightenment is a window manager with great gams, and clearly care was taken with the appearance. Even on the Asus eeePC with its 1GB and Atom processor, Bodhi was doggone snappy even running from the live USB.
It was clearly lust at first sight. So I wiped the disk and installed Bodhi, and I couldn't be happier. I added the lightweight app package from the Bodhi app center, and was up in running in something less than an hour. It is perfect for my little netbook for in-office use and chucking into my carry on for conferences.
Congratulations to the Bodhi devs, whoever you are. It is a truly excellent interface, and I would encourage any of you who are still squirming at the thought of Unity or GS to give it a try. It's much more than Gnome 2, but far less intrusive than the other desktops.
I swear, if DEs were wives, I'd be in the poor house for all the alimony I would be paying...