On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 06:14:21AM -0700, Linux Canuck linuxcanuck@yahoo.ca [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
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> It is unfair to make comparisons between XP and Ubuntu. XP is a ten year old operating system and Ubuntu is more current.
> For what it is worth, I do not find Unity (Ubuntu's desktop environment) particularly fast. There are faster options like XFCE and I find even KDE to be faster.
Unfortunately, IMHO, Linux gets more Windows like with each iteration,
including bloat and slowness. There are various distributions made for
older machines. As Roy said, the XFCE edition might be better, or even
lighter, the LXDE edition, Lubuntu.
There are other distributions that are even better suited for older
machines.
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Scott Robbins
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