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Comment by glesica | Hacker News Reader

The latest version of Xubuntu (12.04) is just stellar IMO. It's turned me into an XFCE user. I've been a DE refugee since Unity and Gnome 3 came along. Glad to see some of these new features being added, particularly the tiling support!

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I feel the same way about LXDE and Lubuntu, except I didn't do it because of Unity. I actually like Unity- I just don't like how bloated the desktop has become in Ubuntu. People were fine with the UI in Windows 3.1, but they just kept screwing with it for no apparent reason, and I feel the same way about Gnome/Unity, KDE, and new versions of OS X.

  > People were fine with the UI in Windows 3.1

You do realize that Windows 3.1 didn't have mutitasking, right?

Neither did iOS, but my point was the user interface, not tasking/processing.

iOS has always had multi-tasking. That only one app was allowed to be displayed at a time is separate from whether or not it was a multi-tasking OS.

It did have multitasking. It was not preemptive.

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