If you’re not happy with the default desktop environment (Unity shell on GNOME3) in Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), then you can try installing some alternative desktop such as MATE, Cinnamon, KDE etc or a lightweight desktop environment such as XFCE.
Why go for a Lightweight Desktop Environment ?
speed
efficiency
low resource requirements (it can also run smooth on older computers)
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I have ubuntu 11.10 installed with unity. It seems to be running a bit slow than i would have liked. So I want to switch to some other desktop environment.
Please suggest some light weight Desktop environment and instructions to install it.
I am looking for a Light weight window manager/desktop environment similar to unity
in these ways.
window buttons layout like unity.
side bar/dock on left with system tray, apps, devices & a menu of some sort.
the reason I am looking for this is my computer can't handle unity & my development apps at once any more.
Just saw an article on Phoronix about a new lightweight Qt based desktop enviroment that is being developed that aims to be "an advanced, easy-to-use, and fast desktop environment based on Qt technologies. It has been tailored for users who value simplicity, speed, and intuitive interface. Unlike desktop environments, Razor-qt also works fine with weak machines." (i.e.
snowpine wrote:I think the Ubuntu LTS release (12.04) with a lightweight desktop, or a Debian derivative with a lightweight desktop (such as CrunchBang, AntiX, or Debian itself) would be a good alternative to the 6-month Ubuntu "point" releases.More good advice. Thanks. I think I am going to go with 12.04 Ubuntu, if I can figure out how to ditch Unity for a lightweight deskto
lubuntu is a faster, more lightweight and energy saving variant of Ubuntu using LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment.
I have always been running XFCE on my Ubuntu machines for its performance advantage over the other DEs. However I run my favourite applications on it which includes apps traditionally bundled with GNOME and KDE (gnome-power-statistics, gnome-system-monitor, kate, kdesvn to name a few).
Does this significantly diminish the performance advantage I get from using a lightweight Desktop Environment?
Mark Shuttleworth,the founder of Ubuntu just announced Unity and Ubuntu Light, a new shell for netbooks.
Unity is a lightweight netbook interface.It is aimed at full screen applications,wanted to be surfing the web in under 10 seconds, and giving people a fantastic web experience with limited usage model to a full desktop.
qtFM is a small, lightweight file manager for Linux desktops based on pure Qt and works great with minimal desktop environments like Openbox.
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