LCDE is about right for modest needs. I haven't got stuff like Dropbox working yet but all I've done is try the default install, watch it fail & leave it. For a standalone machine, it works & it's nice and quick, whereas it was a struggle to get full UnityBuntu 12.04 onto the machine. (Precise no longer supports the Pentium M or any chip without PAE; I had to use the Minimal [i.e. netinst] CD and then `apt-get ubuntu-desktop` onto it. It worked but slowly & it broke multihead support.
I would prefer a vertical taskbar, but to a decent approximation, nothing supports that as well as Windows does. "Nothing" in this case includes Win7, FWIW.
Crunchbang is the step too minimal for me. Fun, fast, simple, delightfully easy to customise, but I am lazy & no doubt decadent and I want desktop icons and external drives that just mount automagically, stuff like that. If I remove tint and replace it with fbpanel it's more usable but I can't be arsed with `dmesg | less`, `sudo mkdir /media/foo`, `sudo mount /dev/foo /media/bar` and all that kind of bollocks in 2012.
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LCDE is about right for modest needs. I haven't got stuff like Dropbox working yet but all I've done is try the default install, watch it fail & leave it. For a standalone machine, it works & it's nice and quick, whereas it was a struggle to get full UnityBuntu 12.04 onto the machine. (Precise no longer supports the Pentium M or any chip without PAE; I had to use the Minimal [i.e. netinst] CD and then `apt-get ubuntu-desktop` onto it. It worked but slowly & it broke multihead support.
I would prefer a vertical taskbar, but to a decent approximation, nothing supports that as well as Windows does. "Nothing" in this case includes Win7, FWIW.
Crunchbang is the step too minimal for me. Fun, fast, simple, delightfully easy to customise, but I am lazy & no doubt decadent and I want desktop icons and external drives that just mount automagically, stuff like that. If I remove tint and replace it with fbpanel it's more usable but I can't be arsed with `dmesg | less`, `sudo mkdir /media/foo`, `sudo mount /dev/foo /media/bar` and all that kind of bollocks in 2012.