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Xubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak is a Big Improvement Over 16.04

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday November 08 2016, @11:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the less-suckage-than-the-last-time-around dept.

-- OriginalOwner_ writes:

Xubuntu is a light-ish spin of Ubuntu Linux. It uses the Xfce desktop environment and is suitable for older machines which would bog down with a heavier DE like Unity or GNOME or KDE.

Curmudgeonly software reviewer Dedoimedo reports:

Giving a high score to Xubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak may look as if it's getting credit only because all other Ubuntu releases this year were horrible, but it is not so. If we exclude the hardware-specific issues with the Realtek drivers--which is a big issue across the entire distro world--and the package manager choice, there weren't any huge, cardinal problems this time. It would seem that Xubuntu is recovering gently. Perhaps it is still too early to tell, but Yak is much, much better than [Xubuntu 16.04 Xenial] Xerus. And it deserves 8/10.

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  • (Score: 1) by purple_cobra on Wednesday November 09 2016, @12:10AM

    by purple_cobra (1435) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @12:10AM (#424300)

    Agree on the Manjaro recommendation. I use the OpenRC variant on an Atom-based Intel NUC and it's fine. For an extra chance at self-immolation, I used BTRFS but it's been flawless so far, though I admit the machine has never been thrashed and is mainly used for web browsing and e-mail. All I've changed from the default is to add the CK kernel (instructions via Arch wiki) and again, no issues at all.