Xubuntu 12.10 review - Very nice

Welcome to the revolution: a long and extremely enthusiastic review of Xubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal 64-bit edition with Xfce desktop environment, covering live session, installation in a quadruple-boot setup on a laptop with SSD and post-install usage, including Wireless, Samba, look & feel, customization, multimedia playback - MP3 and Flash, applications, Ubuntu Software Center and installation of non-Xfce programs, system resources, system responsiveness, stability, suspend & resume, extremely short boot times, and small quirks like Thunar not preserving network share bookmarks, confusing logout & reboot button and printing/firewall problems, and more.

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/xubuntu-quetzal.html


Cheers,
Mrk

 

Nice review! Do take a look at Snowlinux's 3 Cinnamon release. Based on Quantum Quantzal, the Faenza icons are just lovely! Professional looking Cinnamon menu.

 

the crash you miss i guess is volume icon crash but overall xubuntu is much better than ubuntu or kubuntu as its pretty close to what we miss on old gnome 2.32 also linux mint i didnt tried it yet but lt look very delicious

http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_maya_xfce_whatsnew.php#xfce

best part xfce 4.10 + good old mint menu + Out of box experiance + support non-PAE kernel too + LTS


the only thing thats make me feel bad about xubuntu 12.10 is they dont support non-pae kernel any more

like aways one your best review about ubuntu Mrk

its good to hear finally you think xfce is also good desktop alternative )

 

and playing with docky awn and dockbarx not bad idea with xubuntu

i even like pure dockbarx without awn


https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=232753&page=37

icons themes are awoken and Nitrux OS Icons

http://gnome-look.org/content/show....96&PHPSESSID=2d735a7e142842878a1eb319e5a72502

 

Nice review Mrk, I agree with your assessment I've been running x386 version (found it a bit more stable than x64) on my hardware for a while now, and it runs fast and efficient

 

hows the firewall on that version ?

sadly thats the one topic that really seems to be lacking in a desktop version of most of the gnu~linux versions iv messed with so far.

even Guarddog is like meh, and about as advanced as firewalls for windows 3.11.
fire-starter not that much better,then theirs gufw .... meh....

don't know why but i have a real soft spot for the final version of zone alarm 5.5 on my win98se box,now that's what i call a gui,clean simple and to the point with good advanced options, its old school though.

 

this one is much better on tweaks but i never used it so no more comments

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/easy-to-use-gui-for-ubuntus-default-firewall

http://code.google.com/p/ufw-frontends/

http://code.google.com/p/ufw-frontends/wiki/Screenshots

 

I don't use a gui based fw, just ufw and set rules for example:

Code:

sudo ufw allow out proto tcp from any to any port 80, 443

and it works perfectly fine

 

Mrk,

Did you happen to try camera (pptp) automounting ?
Something that I could not get to work, usb flash drives fine, but not with my camera in Thunar or Shotwell/GThumb.
Works totally fine with Nautilus Shotwell in Ubuntu.

Cheers, Nick

 

Install the graphical front-end GUFW and simply enable the firewall!

 

trying this at the moment.

it is very nice indeed, the equal of Mint XFCE or just a hair better, imo.

now, if Ubuntu can get that rolling releases thing underway and working good then it'll be perfect.

 

after a couple of days i found 12.10 Xubuntu to buggy a little.

the same partitions sometimes show up twice on the file manager and i sometimes have to reload webpages because clicking on an hyperlink does nothing.

apparently, there seems to be quite a few users experiencing problems with 12.10.

i'm back to Mint XFCE 14 for the time being because i'm not having those problems.

 

anyway, i gonnna give the 13.04 Beta a try; it supposedly have quite a few fixes: