Re: [ubuntu-uk] from 10.04 to 12.04 (was HUD vs gnome do)
On 19 May 2012 23:14, Andres Muniz andre...@gmail.com wrote: She will consider get more ram but it might be difficult to find because it is something older than ddr I think (dpci?). The previous type of memory to DDR was SDRAM, which came in PC-66, PC-100 and PC-133 speeds. PC-66 was mid-1990s, roughly, PC-100 late '90s and PC-133 around the turn of the century. So it's possible but that would be a 10Y old PC. I said that if it was too slow there where still alternatives (xfce I was thinking). In my experience, XFCE is not much lighter-weight than GNOME or Unity (although it does not require hardware 3D). LXDE (and Lubuntu) are the main lightweight alternative now, I think. Over all I spent over two hours with her. But I think she really did not need any of it given that for 10.04 we did not even speak and it worked fine for her. Sounds good! -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] from 10.04 to 12.04 (was HUD vs gnome do)
- Mensaje original - On 19 May 2012 23:14, Andres Muniz andre...@gmail.com wrote: She will consider get more ram but it might be difficult to find because it is something older than ddr I think (dpci?). The previous type of memory to DDR was SDRAM, which came in PC-66, PC-100 and PC-133 speeds. PC-66 was mid-1990s, roughly, PC-100 late '90s and PC-133 around the turn of the century. So it's possible but that would be a 10Y old PC. Must be pc-133 because she said it was 6 years old. Thanks! I said that if it was too slow there where still alternatives (xfce I was thinking). In my experience, XFCE is not much lighter-weight than GNOME or Unity (although it does not require hardware 3D). LXDE (and Lubuntu) are the main lightweight alternative now, I think. thanks for the heads up! She is now on unity2d i think though i did forget to check (face palm!) I had managed to set up some window animations on xfce but not on lxde. I wanted it not too look too dated, I found lxde to be too basic looking. Then again i must be spoilt by compiz unity. Anyway see how it goes! Over all I spent over two hours with her. But I think she really did not need any of it given that for 10.04 we did not even speak and it worked fine for her. Sounds good! one hiccup i found was that i tried to setup her thunderbird for her 4 emails (uni-exsquirrl type?, Hotmail, gmail, ...) and none of them where autodetected. Did not have time to investigate further but i was guessing maybe the webclient needed to be configured. A pity because 4 emails and being offline from time to time made it well worth configuring but we ran out of time!-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] from 10.04 to 12.04 (was HUD vs gnome do)
I hope to show off new OS some time this weekend in a cafe. I'm sure all will go well! I just have to manage not to drop coffee. I managed to impress but it was much too slow. Is it possible that 12.04 is a lot more resource hungry than 10.04? Highlights she had from 10.04 was wobbly windows and the 4 desktops. And tiding up windows with super+S. (It suprised me!). In 12.04 She liked the dash to find music files, and also liked it for running apps. The hud was slow to come up but thought it was intersting. Setting up ubuntu one was confusing for me and her, the window seemed to be loading/syncing but we hit next and seemed to be done. She accidently set to write documents on side by side arangement while on spread mode and I was unable to maximize minimize nor close because the top bar dissapeared. She will consider get more ram but it might be difficult to find because it is something older than ddr I think (dpci?). I said that if it was too slow there where still alternatives (xfce I was thinking). Over all I spent over two hours with her. But I think she really did not need any of it given that for 10.04 we did not even speak and it worked fine for her. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] from 10.04 to 12.04 (was HUD vs gnome do)
- Mensaje original - On 17/05/12 10:33, paul sutton wrote: I had gnome do, never got it, it just displayed a huge icon bar on the screen, so at least with HUD, it does something, from the start. GNOME Do seems more like the Unity Dash (or vice versa really). Press a button and then type what you want to open. Thanks guys! I now get it! Had a play looks great(if a bit slow) I just went from 10.04 to 12.04 using command line do-upgrade -d or something similar. i did not know i had to wait until july for LTS to LTS upgrade. I had some windows pop up during installation with empty rectangles instead of text pop up I guessed i was accepting and it continued to install ok. It now has 12.04 it seems to have defaulted to unity 2d just fine (no graphics card). It's a bit slower (the laptop is dual core but only 512ram) but i hope the owner will not mind. Upgrade took less than 3hrs. I hope to show off new OS some time this weekend in a cafe. I'm sure all will go well! I just have to manage not to drop coffee.-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
