Re: [tlug] SUSE wipeout! (Add /home partition in Ubuntu)

[Ondrej Martinak <omartinak@example.com>]

On 06/25/2011 01:14 PM, Kenneth Burling wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Scott Robbins<scottro@example.com>  wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 04:47:53PM +0200, Christian Horn wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:37:47PM +0900, Kenneth Burling wrote:
> > > > I had used Ubuntu for almost two years, because my work has kept me
> > > > too busy to really focus on keeping my system up to date properly.  A
> > > > few minutes with Unity though was enough to knock some sense into me.
> > > > :-) I am back with Arch once more. ^_^
> > > Does Ubuntu come with only one windowmanager?
> > > On Fedora 15 it's easy to go for xdm and WindowMaker instead of
> > > gdm/gnome3.
> > I think the canonical (Heh, canonical) way to do it is to use Kubuntu,
> > Xubuntu, Lubuntu and so on.
> >
> > (I could be completely wrong though, not being an Ubuntu user.)
> He is right, the "proper" way to do it is to use Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.
>
> However, the bulk of the integration work goes into Ubuntu, and the others
> tend to be like second class citizens.  You still end up installing large chunks
> of the Ubuntu branch specific things if you want all the pieces to really work
> right together.  Kubuntu, Xubunut, etc are only "official" in that they have
> Canonical's "blessing" to continue, but they are seen as their own projects.

Concerning the window manager you can always simply install the one you 
like and gdm should pick it up - you can choose which window manager to 
use when logging in. I'm running i3 like this on my ubuntu machine at work.

If you're interested in a whole desktop environment you'll have to setup 
proper services/daemons I suppose - so running Kubuntu, Xubuntu as 
others suggested might be easier.

-ondra