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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)

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Post by nookoking »

LarryPage wrote: post #279
Too wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Because then I know I'm actually typing into the password box and not the username box which will be shown in plaintext once the monitor wakes up.

Then press enter, and then type in your password.

Mouse commands are preferred for simple, mindless tasks.

I'd rather rearrange my entire file hierarchy with a file browser like XFE than do all of that shit in a terminal.

Even Ranger/Midnight Commander make it less of a pain in the ass, but it's still a pain in the ass. Combos and typing require a lot more brain bandwidth than the simple, mindless or rather spineful, motions of a hand flick and click.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by nookoking »

CalRobert wrote: post #201
DCKing wrote: post #145

Man, the Linux crowd really sucks. Why am I even reading these comments? I'm of the opinion that the Linux desktop has never been better, and I really enjoy using modern Linux desktops a lot more than I used to. To all those developers that made it possible for us to use this stuff on our computers with no strings attached: thank you. Ubuntu 18.04 is a great collection of these achievements (like many other current L…

I owe my career in part to the fact that I just bit the bullet, dumped windows, and switched to Ubuntu as my main OS about 7 years ago. In the war on general purpose computing they're still fighting the good fight.

I do too.

If Windows didn't have a god awful development environment, I would have never switched to Linux. Nor would I be the person I am today.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by nookoking »

billfruit wrote: post #19

Why 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.

Arch has it's own issues, like violating KISS.

Albeit, sudo pacman -syyu has never broken anything for me. Pulseaudio on the other hand...

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by salawat »

wilsonnb wrote: post #244
CalRobert wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I owe my career in part to the fact that I just bit the bullet, dumped windows, and switched to Ubuntu as my main OS about 7 years ago. In the war on general purpose computing they're still fighting the good fight.

I, for one, am happy that a war is being fought on general purpose computing because it seems to be the only way to make everything "just work" to an acceptable degree. The iPad is the least general and most locked down computer I've ever used but I love it because it just works. I've never had a problem with it. I was a diehard Linux guy for five or six years but now I run Windows 10 on all my computers and spend mo…

That is by no means the case.

It just takes a good number of people getting together and settling on a set of standards. The beauty of the general purpose computing device is it can support any and all at will.

Until people start thinking that "it's better to just let the big companies lock down hardware, then everything will just work!", which leads to hardware impls or subsystems like UEFI that actively fight to deprive the User of their rights to total control of their tool.

No thanks. My machine. My code, my rules, and my data. No one else's. i'll accept the onus of learning how to secure and safely use it. Convenience isn't worth the sacrifice of freedom.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by tjpnz »

dingo_bat wrote: post #310
tjpnz wrote: post #160

Ubuntu lost me years back when they introduced Unity. The single biggest issue I had with it was the positioning of the dock and how there was no officially supported means of changing it. I didn't like it from a design perspective but far worse was my RSI which was particularly bad at the time, even subtle things like button placement would just set everything right off. I wasn't the only one who wanted the option t…

The linked article mentions that there are zero UI customization options. You can't even change the font or colors. They are certainly not listening to their users.

That's a real shame, I always thought customization was one of Gnome's strong points (at least compared to Unity). Sounds as though the arrogance I experienced all those years back is still in play.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by Izkata »

Too wrote: post #272
LarryPage wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So instead of just typing your password, you prefer to wiggle your mouse first, and then start typing your password?

Yes. Because then I know I'm actually typing into the password box and not the username box which will be shown in plaintext once the monitor wakes up.

Or more importantly, checking that the screen actually locked and didn't just turn off. You could be about to broadcast your password in a chat.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by Izkata »

yellowapple wrote: post #251
unethical_ban wrote: post #226

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>There's the default Apple scrolling behavior Everyone has preferences, but the "apple" behavior makes so much sense. It's the first thing I change when I install a laptop OS.

I use the default scroll direction (down is down, up is up) with mouse wheels, but invert it for touchpads. It just feels more correct; with the wheel, it feels like the bottom of the wheel is the thing moving the page up, while with the touchpad it feels like it should be moving the page directly. Works almost perfectly. The only problem is the Slack desktop app (which inexplicably ignores the settings for literally…

Meanwhile, I can't stand that way. For me, that means having to think about it and switch direction depending on which one I'm using (which happens several times a day at work, depends on if my laptop is docked or not).

I prefer it where if I want to scroll down, I just drag my finger down, regardless of whether it's on the touchpad or the mouse.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by antod »

car_invasion wrote: post #243
omaranto wrote: post #218

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> 2. What if you want the window at the top of the screen without being maximised? I'm using Unity in Ubuntu 16.04, and there a window only gets maximized if you drag it very close to the top edge of the screen. If you drag it to the bottom of the top bar or anywhere in the bottom half of the top bar, it moves to the bottom edge of the top bar without maximizing.

I got so much used to Unity. 17.04 felt more alien to me than when I first tried Win8 Metro. I'm getting old...

17.10 you mean? I haven't enjoyed that release at all, for me personally Ubuntu's Gnome 3 (could be everyone's Gnome 3 - I dunno) is just clunky and buggy compared to Unity.

I'll upgrade to 18.04, but if it isn't an improvement over 17.10 in that regard, it'll be time for me to check out other desktops.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by HankB99 »

tedge wrote: post #229

Ubuntu 18.04 is the first release to include my app, PikoPixel (pixel-art editor), in its repository (universe): https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/gnustep/pikopixel.app I had to tweak PP's packaging to get it to appear in the Ubuntu Software app, so I can provide a bit of info about this part of the article: My assumption for now is that the Ubuntu Software application only shows updates for packages that were insta…

When I tried an early beta (of 10.04) I was unable to find the mosquitto client tools in the software store. Neither does it show up in either list you linked. I guess it was left out for other reasons.

At one point there was a setting in the software store to show all available packages. It has been removed.

At present I am only aware of command line tools for finding S/W that includes all available packages. (`snap` and `apt`) I guess Ubuntu are dumbing down Linux. They have succeeded. I think it's dumb.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by kumaranvpl »

dingo_bat wrote: post #308

Has Ubuntu fixed Alt+Tab yet? It drive me mad the last time I tried to use it. Why can't it just cycle through windows like a normal window manager?

It is not fixed yet. That is the intended behaviour I guess. Anyway I am using https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/15/alternatetab/ this extension to cycle through all the open windows.
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