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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.
Switch to Kubuntu then, all the ease of Ubuntu with the customizability of Plasma/KDE
When 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!
Actually you can just directly type your password without dragging/pressing anything.
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Yesterday, I finished converting a bike shop to Ubuntu Linux only. They are ridiculously happy because: - device drivers actually work - they don't have to worry anymore about viruses - they can use old machines without trouble So yeah, zero customization - but a way better experience than Windows. So, your crowd not only exists, but got me a new bicycle!
That's awesome. Was that a barter deal? Fix-our-computers-get-a-bike?
Buuut so many great bikes (and I ride to work every single day) and it was hard to accept the money.
I joke to people telling I am an addicted doing work for the drug dealer - of course I would receive in drugs, not money!
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Yesterday, I finished converting a bike shop to Ubuntu Linux only. They are ridiculously happy because: - device drivers actually work - they don't have to worry anymore about viruses - they can use old machines without trouble So yeah, zero customization - but a way better experience than Windows. So, your crowd not only exists, but got me a new bicycle!
"they don't have to worry anymore about viruses " lol!
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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 de…
Do a large number of people not already think this? I'm pretty sure that's why Chromebooks and iPads are appealing to many people.
Convenience is worth the sacrifice of freedom if you were never going to use the freedom anyways. It's not even a sacrifice if that's the case.
If someone offers to pay my rent on the condition that I never climb Mt. Everest, I am technically sacrificing freedom for convenience but I'm still going to do it because I wasn't going to climb Mt. Everest anyways.
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.
Although I could experience the advantages it's offering over 16.04, I tried it yesterday and it's incredibly slow. Like 5-seconds-to-activate-focus-on-any-window slow.
Has anyone had similar issue? The last time I experienced something laggy like this was with crappy hardware.
It doesn't happen on RHEL 7.5 (with GNOME Classic), Fedora (with GNOME), Ubuntu 16.04 (with Unity). I have a beefy computer (HP Z600, 2x Xeon, 48GB RAM ECC), so I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware issue. Windows 10 also runs fine.
No mention of Ubuntu Budgie? I have found that it behaves perfectly and just "gets out of the way." I have never liked the Unity interface and having plank integrated is fantastic. I also like the menu (w/ search) vs. use search for everything UX of GNOME vanilla.
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> Dragging a window to the top of the screen maximizes the window. FOR GODS SAKE WHY. Because it's a handy gesture. > you have to drag upwards with your mouse to unlock the screen. Like some common dirty frickin' smart phone. Yeah, that's pretty stupid.
You can also just press enter and type your password like normal.