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A perfect marriage: YOU and Ubuntu 16.04

Len Goddard

SO,

I currently use Mint/Xfce 17.3

From a personal point of view, mainly based on running the final betas of ubuntu and xubuntu in a virtualbox.

The good:

snaps - excellent, or will be when people start providing them.

The ugly (or at least irrelevant):

task bar on the bottom - I prefer it on the left as with an ultrawide screen I have more horizontal real estate to spare

ZFS - if I were running a server I'd be excited but for a desktop I'm happy with ext4

scopes gone - Saves me disabling them but I almost never use desktop search anyway

systemd - I sympathise with the purists who object but I can live with it

software centre - I think used it once to install synaptic

The bad:

Min/max/close on the left of the title bar - 20 years windows and linux desktop use have hard wired me to go to the right. For me unity is a non-starter until I can reconfigure this.

Xubuntu seemed flat and visually unattractive compared with Mint Xfce. Probably fixable with some determined customisation but I could see no significant advantages.

I'll wait for Mint 18, I think.

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