It's called "Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot"? Yet presumably you want to increase the install base? Do you not see a problem here?
And people here downvote when you complain about it...
Ask HN: What would you like to see in Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot?
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Re: Ask HN: What would you like to see in Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot?
#82Not sure if this is appropriate for your question.. but I've been using Ubuntu for 5 years now as my sole OS, as a programmer. I'm thinking of switching to Mac OS soon because I'm sick of hacking my computer to have it "just work": - Every time there's a new release, and I update, it leaves me with a crashed unusable system. Its happened so much that I've scripted out my entire install and configuration process - I h…
I used Linux for six years as my primary OS, on OS X for a while now. On OS X, the biggest annoyance for me, coming from Linux, is the lack of a consistent packaging system. I don't like the MacPorts style of compiling everything on my own system, but being a Ruby programmer, I'm kind of stuck with it as well due to that being the way any Gem native extensions like to work too. But really, that's about it. It's a UNI…
You could try homebrew, which could be described as macports done right - http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
Re: Ask HN: What would you like to see in Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot?
#83I have not seen notifications in 11.4, but the system in 10.10 seems silly to me, probably because I'm used to growl. I keep trying to reach to the notification to interact with the application calling for my attention and it just makes it disappear :/
Re: Ask HN: What would you like to see in Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot?
#84I never use the GUI.
Removal of ruby from apt-get and replacement with a working system wide rvm installation that can be overridden with individual user rvm installations.
Re: Ask HN: What would you like to see in Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot?
#85Coming from the Windows world, I've had nothing but frustration trying to manage the one Ubuntu box that I have running on EC2. The OS and desktop seems workable, but the tools available to interact with it are simply not there. An example: I VNC into the box, pull up a file in the editor, head back to my Windows machine, copy some text, head back to the Ubuntu box, hit "paste". Nothing happens. [skip forward past 4…
I don't mean this with any Linux-nerd snark at all: You shouldn't be administering a Linux server with remote desktop. You shouldn't even have X installed on your servers. Even if you can administer some things, you'll find the tools just aren't there, and you'll spend all your time in a terminal windows.
Honestly, your life will be dramatically improved if you spend 30 minutes getting comfortable with the commandline, the bare-bones-basics of vim and SSH/SCP. Copy/paste and file transfers are solved problems with PuTTY and Filezilla.
(In my personal life I am a total Linux/BSD user, but professionally I am a .Net dev who deploys to Linux on EC2 from Windows, so I have a little bit of standing to speak!)
Re: Ask HN: What would you like to see in Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot?
#86I don't hear many people gripe about these issues, but I have two complaints: 1.) There is no way to mute / lower the volume from the login screen. This means that if I'm in a setting where I don't want to make noise (e.g. in a library, in a meeting, in a class) and boot up, there's absolutely no way for me to prevent my laptop from playing the wonderful startup .wav file. I have to log in before I get any sort of vo…
#1 Is obnoxious. There should absolutely be a way to turn off the drum-sound without rolling out gconf.
Re: Ask HN: What would you like to see in Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot?
#87I actually have no complaints whatsoever about Ubuntu (except for the 'you must use google+gconf to turn off the login screen sound'). In fact, I've found it so appealingly easy to use over the past few years that I've switched to FreeBSD just so I'm a little bit over my head again :) I may be a perversely unique case and you probably shouldn't cater to me!
Re: Ask HN: What would you like to see in Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot?
#88Fix nm/nm-applet and I'll be beyond happy. I'm sick of it randomly dying whenever it wants to, having to do sudo pkill -9 nm-applet && sudo nm-applet ...a billion times a day. Including always when switching user accounts. It's really bizarre. I'm tempted to use wicd, but the icon for it and UI sucks balls compared to nm-applet. I used to have an alias set to to do most of the dirty work, but in the end it's only a f…
You can use "system connections" so your wifi doesn't go down when switching between users, it works for me (I have a mix of kubuntu and ubuntu machines). I find it strange that nm-applet crashes, did you submit a bug report?
Re: Ask HN: What would you like to see in Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot?
#89Even though it's easy to fix, moving the min/max/close buttons to the left is a major annoyance.
Re: Ask HN: What would you like to see in Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot?
#90For people who are looking to switch to Mac OS X for it's looks and usability and are planning to buy Mac hardware just for the OS or stick with Windows, Ubuntu GNU/Linux would be an option on their current hardware.
I use an AWN dock in Ubuntu and would love to have the time to research/hack my way to the Universal menu bar. It would be great if Ubuntu would have a standard (optional) Dock and Universal Menu Bar.