Re: XBoard 4.7.3: Full board textures + maximize window

Am 19.09.2014 um 18:33 schrieb Tim Mann:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:28 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I still badly regret I upgraded from 8.04 to 10.04. My sound card started
>> stuttering, the WiFi hardware of my computer was no longer supported, and
>> I cannot use USB at all. I tried to install 12.04 on a virtual machine,
>> and the install made the VM crash. From what I have seen from other
>> people, 12.04 has a completely new user interface that is complete crap. I
>> would never want that on any computer I actually had to work on. So if
>> 10.04 gets unworkable, I guess I would have to switch to another distro
>> (people recommend Fedora).
> I switched to Xubuntu and am at 14.04 now. Xubuntu uses a more
> traditional style of UI, reasonably similar to what you're used to. As
> far as I know, Fedora went with Gnome3, which to me is almost the same
> as Ubuntu's new Unity UI and just as unusable for desktop machines.
> Xubuntu has been a good solution for me, where I can get the frequent
> package updates but not have to use the crazy UI.
>
> You can try booting Xubuntu from a live CD and see whether the
> problems with hardware support of your machine are any better or
> worse.
>
I'm using Xubuntu since version 11.10 on my Laptop and on my PC (Windows 
7) as VM very successfull.
I do all Linux related developing (Android/Chess) on this Ubuntu 
variant. I agree with Tim and it's my recommendation as well.

Regards,
Daniel