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Comment by willvarfar | Hacker News Reader

Whaoo I can't wait!

Where does Xubuntu and Kubuntu stand, install-base-wise, compared to the default Ubuntu? And other distros, for that matter?

I'm one of many people who left Ubuntu as soon as they started doing their big UI changes. I went to Xubuntu.

But I have no bigger idea of which distro is hot anymore; once I settled on Xubuntu, I haven't really been shopping around for alternatives.

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I've been on Xubuntu since the Unity move too, so there's at least 2 of us :) I've dabbled, but never found a good reason to use anything different, simplicity and stability are all I care about.

Same here. XFCE is highly configurable, stable, and has a small memory footprint, which you notice if you're doing any processor-intensive or memory-intensive work. There are also plenty of easy-to-install themes that look quite nice.

I don't see what any other DE gives me other than glossy animations that I don't even want.

I have been trying mx linux the last two weeks or so. It is similar to Xubuntu, based on Debian Stable (which was a plus for me) with a polished XFCE desktop. So far I like it, especially some of the tools they have developed on top of Debian.

I've used Xubuntu for years as a weekend OS for side projects. It seems to work well.

After Unity forced me to shop around, I jumped from Ubuntu all the way to devuan after trying debian, and elementaryos. Both debian and elementaryos had significant system stability issues because of systemd. For instance, logind would wig out.

I very nearly switched to a BSD, but the learning curve was a bit too high (I like apt).

Package admin in OpenBSD is really simple, if you want to give it a try sometime:

pkg_info -Q <search_term> # find a package

pkg_info <package> # show package description

pkg_add <package> # add a package

pkg_delete <package> # delete a package

That's all the basics you need on a fresh install.

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