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Keith
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29 Oct 2009, 3:35 pm

Presuming there is an existing installation, wouldn't an upgrade be better?



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29 Oct 2009, 4:35 pm

Running the upgrade right now, not really sure what improvements come with this.
My major peeve is the LXDE desktop looses my wifi connection, or that there is not
an open source second life viewer in 64bit.



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04 Nov 2009, 12:17 am

If your processor is 64 bit, why do you need something as lightweight as LXDE?


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04 Nov 2009, 6:03 am

DavidK wrote:
If your processor is 64 bit, why do you need something as lightweight as LXDE?

Because some people (myself included) appreciate blazing fast software, even if our machines are capable of running heavier software at tolerable speeds. Also, LXDE has a much cleaner, less cluttered feel than heavier bloated environments like KDE or GNOME.


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04 Nov 2009, 6:17 am

DavidK wrote:
If your processor is 64 bit, why do you need something as lightweight as LXDE?

I run it to annoy people who ask stupid questions, and since its running on a older laptop, LXDE runs blazingly
fast on it compared to the other desktop environments



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10 Nov 2009, 4:45 pm

Keith wrote:
Presuming there is an existing installation, wouldn't an upgrade be better?


Not if the machines where originally WIndows Boxes.