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Just don't install Ubuntu on this :). Your students will cry in despair every time their VM will freeze because of Unity. I suppose this is because Unity needs a 3D accelerated graphical card and the VirtualBox emulation doesn't provide all it needs.

Linux Mint with the Mate desktop runs smoothly on cheap Windows hosts.



How on earth did it not occur to you to use a different desktop on Ubuntu, if Unity is causing you such problems?

Do you seriously have to install a different distribution merely in order to switch the desktop you use?

Do you also switch distributions in order to use a different browser or shell?


I suppose you know Mint is basically Ubuntu repackaged and with a different default window manager.

I'm more interested in keeping my productivity up than in experimenting with installing various window mangers in Ubuntu.

Ubuntu caused me problems only when I run it in a VM. If you install Ubuntu on a decent physical machine it will run OK.


    sudo apt-get install -y xubuntu-desktop
    sudo apt-get install -y lubuntu-desktop
Give me a little while, I think I've exceeded my experimentation quota for today


+1

Thanks.

Your commands installs the alternative window managers alongside Unity ? Or they replace Unity ?


Replaces Unity.

Here's a few to check out: http://askubuntu.com/questions/65083/what-different-desktop-...




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