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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-09-29 00:50, Clifford Snow
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:38 PM,
André Pirard <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:A.Pirard.Papou@gmail.com" target="_blank">A.Pirard.Papou@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Only gotcha, I
think: recent Ubuntu comes with a desktop called Unity
which is very resource consuming, dancing but not
singing, and is really crawling on VB. <a
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href="https://www.google.be/#&q=ubuntu+unity+virtualbox+performance"
target="_blank">There are solutions to tame Unity</a>,
but you may prefer to install a more classic desktop
like <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://complete-concrete-concise.com/ubuntu-2/ubuntu-12-04/ubuntu-12-04-how-to-install-the-gnome-session-fallback"
target="_blank">gnome session fallback</a> or, even
closer to classic Ubuntu and better IMHO, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://mate-desktop.org/"
target="_blank">MATE</a>, and choose it as your
desktop before login.</div>
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Try XFCE for a lightweight windows manager. I've been using it
since gnome3 appeared. <br>
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Yes, I know XFCE, Clifford, it runs a few apps in 384 MB.<br>
Both Gnome3 and MATE run fine on any decent machine (MATE is a mix
of Gnome2 + criticized Gnome3).<br>
The only problem is starting Ubuntu the first time with crawling
sole Unity under VirtualBox.<br>
Once you've managed to install one of these and use it, you're off.<br>
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