I spent a bit of time playing with Xubuntu 13.10 recently, and agree completely - tweakable, stable, fast and efficient as all get out - and with the sizeable Ubuntu repo, can rather easily be made into about anything one wants or needs. My favorite "big" Linux distro. Can't wait for the LTS 14.04 release next month!jakfish wrote: ...Xubuntu 13.10 heaven. Love the fast XFCE and its tweakable nature, and Ubuntu of any flavor does well on the C720's specs of 2GB RAM/16GB SSD.
Typical of Xfce releases, it seems, in that it looks really bland OOTB until you get in and tweak a while. I don't quite understand why "they" do that - develop a system around a desktop that has the potential to look and function so nicely - yet release it appearing so blah, so ordinary on first boot...?
Also spent quite a fair amount of time with a Mint 15 Olivia (Mate) install. On one hand, I love it (quite fast/efficient, great look and "feel", full-featured and generally easy to use and setup) - but on the other hand, there always seems to be either some obnoxious bug/glitch that raises it's ugly head (Synaptic sometimes crashes system, for one), or else I uncover an obvious, useful and common feature that's simply missing (like no thumbnail support in the default Caja file browser, for example). A number of things that spoil the impression of an otherwise great, well laid-out OS.
Bob