UberStudent Linux Fail

Uber Disappointing Linux


Now, far be it from me to make the "official judgement" but from my experience last night and this morning UberStudent didn't make the grade. I'm just going to sum up my lasting impression right out the gate: bloated. UberStudent ran slugish and had way too many packages. I think optimization and simplification is the best course of action for the people working on Uber.

Now the hardware I was running it on isn't the best so I figured I'd give their LXDE version a try. LXDE is a light-weight window manager for X sever. It generates the little boxes that applications run in and handles most of the actual graphical user Interface (GUI). LXDE is a lot like it's peers XFCE and GNOME. GNOME is the default window manager for a Ubuntu install. This CD and not DVD sized operating system needs some work in the visuals department. Although the applications/panel menu well thought out and I like the categories the application shortcuts are organized into, the over all visual feel of the system feels incomplete. It lacks the elegance of a distrobution like Linux Mint that also runs a mod version of the Ubuntu/Debian kore and comes in I think four total reconfigurations. These configurations include: KDE, GNOME, FLUXBOX, and I think a bare Debian spins as well.

UberStudent Linux 1.0
Visuals: 3
Packages: 8 (but a little on the bloated side)
Install: 2
Usability: 3


Over All: FAIL


Alternative Suggestions:
               -Linux Mint