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<div>Hi, Benjamin.</div>
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<div>I tried Elementary OS last year for a week or two on a spare machine. It was as good as most lightweight desktops, but a bit fiddly -- at least I thought it was. If you were looking for a suitable distro to replace Win XP on an old machine, you could do a lot worse than take a look at Linux Lite 2. I run this on my laptop and replaced my grandson's old XP on his Latitude D410 just this last week, and it works extremely well. It even comes in as a download of about 700MB and will fit on a CD.</div>
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<div>It comes with a fair selection of goodies, including an up-to-date Libre Office and the Whisker Menu as default. What <em>is</em> fascinating about LL2 is the number of prepared scripts for downloading even more stuff, such as Skype and Wine. You just match the numbers, enter you pass-phrase and Robert is your avuncular relation!</div>
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<div>Give it a spin.</div>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
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<div>kk3</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 16, 2014 at 9:01 PM<br/>
<b>From:</b> "Benjamin Crowe" <sneblot@gmail.com><br/>
<b>To:</b> "Notts GNU/Linux Users Group" <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk><br/>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nottingham] Elementary OS</div>
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<p>Just a question out of interest, who on this list either uses or has tried elementary os? What do you think of it as a distro?</p>
<p>Ben</p>
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