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From ‘U’ To ‘X’ & Back Again

I'm sure it's not too difficult to guess what this post is about!

I tried out Xubuntu the other day, and I really liked it. So much so that I decided to remove my standard Karmic install, and replace it with the Xubuntu Karmic...sadly, this only lasted for about 3 hours because of a couple of issues which I couldn't deal with. They may seem small, but all too often it's the small things that make all the difference.

For example, I wasn't able to configure the panels with my dual screen setup the way I wanted (panels/primary monitor on the right). No matter how much I tried, I couldn't get it to work, though in Ubuntu, it's very easy to configure. Secondly was just a number of interface issues where I couldn't configure it to the way I wanted. It's a shame, I really do like Xubuntu, I think it's frequently under-rated by a lot of people.

In all, I think I'll probably try it again for the Lucid (10.04) release, and see how we're getting on