Chromium and skype work out of the box for me.

I found the 12 series almost unusable on my "old machines" and gave up on 12.10 completely. Lxde is so fast and so easy to configure and in the year since I abandoned unity I guess I have gotten so used to it that going back to ubuntu seemed hard. Ringtail is usable and much smoother. I really like dash now. It gives you so much more to view. It's fast and the search works, and you can see more info & you can add & remove software so much faster than the software center,...they just should do away with it. In the end I think ubuntu is moving much more gracefully into the tech future than anyone else & that includes windows & mac. I did have some issues with it while building my weebly website so I went back to using lxde. Now has anyone tried lxle? I am using it now & it is great! It is sort of the opposite of wattOS but it brings lxde to the people who don't want to have to set anything up.

I'm using cairo dock now and am very happy with it. It is very snappy. I did configure a panel to be a dock at first, but I like all the extras that come with cairo dock like a waste basket & a weather app that really works. ZorinOS Lite has a dock for openbox that is called ADesk Bar, it works very well & there is also wbar in synaptic.

Hey I forgot to say what a beautiful login screen R6 has to greet me everytime I turn on my computer. Also I added gimp. Pinta is ok, ...simpler but I have used gimp for years, but it was 2.6. For those who might want 2.8 add this ppa,  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp  and of course  sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gimp

I installed R6 this weekend @ I like it so far. I got ubuntuone to install without a hitch. First time ever. It was a good thing too since I installed R6 over my dual boot with ubuntu. I don't think much of the search feature. I prefer synapse.  I tried cairo-dock for the first time in years and it is a pleasure. It loads much faster than docky which I also tried. Evolve is a beautiful theme so I kept it. Thanks for the heads up on installing cups or I would still be cursing my computer today. Great job Biff!