[kwlug-disc] Self-introduction

[Ron Singh]

Yes, very true. A fine job from Simon Quigley and gang.  Theming
inconsistencies abound though in Lubuntu 18.10(where the LXqt stuff was
introduced), but I think this is to expected as it is a short-term release
to see what sticks/works.

I still use Lubuntu on a fairly old Thinkpad X31 with a  1.6Ghz Dothan
CPU(non-PAE thing) and that works quite well with a 7200RPM spinner and 2G
of RAM.

The new Lubu still suffers from a deficit that I fear diminishes it's
adoption by the Linux community, that deficit being key bindings, or more
appropriately, a lack of key bindings for the usual GUI end-user tasks.
Seems like too much work to address this shortcoming(at least to me) when
there is Xfce and Mate. Xfce is quite mature, reliable and the
implementation by the Mint team is sublime.

I did find an interesting oddity with Lubu 18.10, the memory footprint was
greater than Mint Xfce(!) Not sure if it was due to the qt libs and such
being loaded in ram for a snappier response, odd, all the same.

Thanks,

Ron Singh



On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 11:43 AM Charles M <chaslinux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ron I read somewhere that the next version of Lubuntu would use LxQt
> rather than Lxde.
>
> On Sun, Nov 4, 2018, 10:11 AM Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Welcome!
>> I am still relatively new at this at hjust under 2 years now, but the
>> transition has been smooth from W7/W10 by dint of dogged distro-hopping and
>> use/break of many cuts of GNU/Linux.
>>
>> The folks at KWLUG have been truly helpful and very encouraging. wish I
>> contribute more.
>>
>> I did try LMDE on baqre metal, metal being a Thinkpad X230, but the 4.9.x
>> kernel does not play well with the APCI and SMAPI files and I cannot use
>> TLP properly as a result. I cannot deprecate the kernel to something that I
>> know works, like 4.4, or more likely, I lack the chops to do so.
>>
>> Anyway, hope to see you at KWLUG tomorrow!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ron Singh
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 2:20 AM <tomg at sentex.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear LUG members,
>>>
>>> I just subscribed to this mailing list and joined your IRC channel
>>> today.  I've
>>> been using Linux most of the time since 1997.  I'm glad to have finally
>>> joined
>>> this LUG.
>>>
>>> My favourite distribution is Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) and I
>>> taught myself
>>> how to write programs in C, Python and other languages.  I also have a
>>> lot of
>>> information on administration and internet stuff.
>>>
>>> I'm a big fan of Linux and want to pursue more Linux advocacy.  (I have
>>> done
>>> some on IRC and the Web.)
>>>
>>> I hope for social and technical payoffs for joining this LUG.
>>>
>>> Hope you are all doing well!
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Tom
>>>
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