On 8/9/13 7:14 AM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: > On 08/05/2013 09:25 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: > >> TechRadar has "Ubuntu derivatives: 5 of the best Ubuntu-based distros" >> where Lubuntu is evaluated. It gets a total score of 3 out of 5: >> >> http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/ubuntu-derivatives-5-of-the-best-ubuntu-based-distros-1170314 >> >> Not bad, but not great either. There is room for improvement. > > OK, please be more specific... based on this review, and how it scores > distributions, what specific improvements would we need to make to > Lubuntu so we score higher? And are those changes appropriate for our > intended users and their hardware?
There's not much Lubuntu needs to change IMHO. The article did not give specifics. The scoring seemed quite subjective, and from my reading not always in line with the goal of providing a light weight distro. For default apps, Lubuntu got 4/5. It looks like some of the emphasis was on quantity in the default installation. I think Lubuntu is better here than the others because it fits on a single CD and can thus reach older hardware where having a DVD is not a given. No specific changes unless it might be to swap out AbiWord and Gnumeric for LibreOffice. But that might be too fat. Which leads us to intended purpose where Lubuntu gets a 5/5. Nuff sed. Desktop experience got 3/5 because of lacking bells and whistles, including Ubuntu One integration. This sort of contradicts the previous criterium and the author recognized that. A lot of evaluations focus on eye candy rather than useful stuff like mouse focus, including this one. Documentation and support got a 3/5 which I find puzzling. We have three really good resources, the wiki, the Ubuntu Forums and the Lubuntu-Users mailing list with archive. I'm not sure I agree with the author's rating here. AFAIK users can get good help quickly 24/7 maybe that needs to be more visible. Custom tools got 3/5, which I'm not sure of the advantage of having custom or re-branded tools. If the tools that are provided work well, that is more important than having something that is unique to Lubuntu. In fact, if a tools is used across more distros, it becomes more well-known and thus better supported for new users. So also with this one there's nothing clear to be done. Configuration tools got 4/5, as did others, but no clue as to what was missing or wrong. How can the LXDE menu be edited? Maybe that was it. > BTW, based on NoScript, that page apparently loads scripts from around > 60 different sites... ouch! With Collusion I see only 6. But that's too many anyway. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/collusion/ Regards, /Lars -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
