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A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
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Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
#42The technical audience who actually use Linux desktops want more customization not less, and the crowd that Ubuntu seems to be chasing doesn't seem to actually exist? Hmm this doesn't make me want to leave xubuntu any time soon, although I too have noticed the recent xfce issues mentioned in the article.
As a member of the technical audience who actually uses Linux (Ubuntu), I want almost no customization. I want sane and tested defaults, not a bunch of knobs to adjust things. I mourn the loss of the Unity Desktop which was virtually perfect OOTB. It had a great management of the screen space, especially on laptops, it was pretty, and it worked. I wouldn't even change the desktop background.
"Sane and tested defaults with no customization" is not realistic, because the expectations and use cases are different for every user.
It's also particularly dangerous, since it leads to the "my way or the highway" GNOME mindset, which, in the extreme cases, entirely removes features without the option to enable them back, because... customization is bad.
Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
#43The technical audience who actually use Linux desktops want more customization not less, and the crowd that Ubuntu seems to be chasing doesn't seem to actually exist? Hmm this doesn't make me want to leave xubuntu any time soon, although I too have noticed the recent xfce issues mentioned in the article.
As a member of the technical audience who actually uses Linux (Ubuntu), I want almost no customization. I want sane and tested defaults, not a bunch of knobs to adjust things. I mourn the loss of the Unity Desktop which was virtually perfect OOTB. It had a great management of the screen space, especially on laptops, it was pretty, and it worked. I wouldn't even change the desktop background.
I love Gnome for precisely the same reason you like Unity.
Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
#44Why doesn't Ubuntu (and many other distributions) change to a rolling release model. Having switched to Arch, though admittedly the installation process is much more elaborate than of Ubuntu, once you customise it to one's preference, it is much more convenient to keep upgrading individual packages as they are evolving.
Last time I tried Arch (about a decade ago), I gave a command to update packages. In the update, my NVIDIA card was moved to be supported by "nvidia-legacy" rather than "nvidia"... Of course, I didn't have legacy drivers installed, so the driver failed pretty badly (it was assigned to NVIDIA in my xorg conf). X wouldn't load, and because several aspects of X changed in the update, I had to spend a few hours figuring out what when wrong.
The point of the above (possibly out of date) story is that when I say "update", I want a minimal chance that something serious changed. I don't mind fiddling around with Linux, but I want it to be on my terms (like a lazy Sunday). Giving the user a choice between "update" and "upgrade" allows me to specify when I want to apply major changes.
Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
#45Ubuntu is dead for me since the release where they were sending the data you typed in the internal search across the internet. And Shuttleworth claimed it's not a big deal. Since then, I'm a happy Linux Mint user. And since we are talking about Linux distros: I tried a bunch of times to live with a distro that has no start bar at the bottom. Even after a few weeks my productivity does not recover. It's a mistery to m…
> the data you typed in the internal search
Your problem is that you viewed it as an internal search, when it was designed and advertised as a global search.
If you want to argue that the global search should have been an internal search, that's fine. If you imply that the search was an internal search, though, then that's misleading FUD.
Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
#46Why doesn't Ubuntu (and many other distributions) change to a rolling release model. Having switched to Arch, though admittedly the installation process is much more elaborate than of Ubuntu, once you customise it to one's preference, it is much more convenient to keep upgrading individual packages as they are evolving.
Because servers.
Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
#47When the display goes to sleep due to lack of input or whatever, you have to drag upwards with your mouse to unlock the screen. Like some common dirty frickin' smart phone. Yes! Dragging a window to the top of the screen maximizes the window. FOR GODS SAKE WHY. Double yes!
Just press enter to get to the password prompt without using the mouse.
Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
#48Why doesn't Ubuntu (and many other distributions) change to a rolling release model. Having switched to Arch, though admittedly the installation process is much more elaborate than of Ubuntu, once you customise it to one's preference, it is much more convenient to keep upgrading individual packages as they are evolving.
Because rolling releases give you a terrible choice between constant upgrades all the time (read: resource and network usage and reboots), and if you don't, a high likelihood of something breaking when you finally do that pacman -Syu. There's nothing wrong with snapshot releases in a distro focused on usability and stability.
pacman -Syu was always a dangerous ride in the past, but the last two years it hasn't broken anything for me, ever.
I upgrade all packages about once a week.
Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
#49When the display goes to sleep due to lack of input or whatever, you have to drag upwards with your mouse to unlock the screen. Like some common dirty frickin' smart phone. Yes! Dragging a window to the top of the screen maximizes the window. FOR GODS SAKE WHY. Double yes!
> Dragging a window to the top of the screen maximizes the window. FOR GODS SAKE WHY.
I use this all the time when working with several monitors. Just press Alt, click somewhere onto a window, move this window to a different monitor, smash window to the top of the screen. Bam, instant monitor-switching of full-screen windows.
(And yes, usually I use keyboard shortcuts for this but when the hand is already on the mouse then this is the best way to do it)
Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mint the distro with shity security model right? You better stay with Ubuntu / Debian they know what they're doing on that side.
What was wrong with mint exactly?