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Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

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Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

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Post by Innocuous »

patrickaljord wrote: post #11
meaty wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want the option to opt out before I'm forcibly opted in and can possibly trigger the functionality. Even Windows 8 religiously asks you these questions at first boot after installation.

Windows 8 isn't gratis, you can complain but you can't demand anything from a free (as in gratis) product.

Maybe, but remember that we are the same people that installed/pushed Ubuntu on the computers from our family and friends and gave free support on forums and irc.

We did that because we believed it was a better alternative. So some of us get passionate when advertisements creep in the default installation...

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

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Post by meaty »

moystard wrote: post #19
meaty wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want the option to opt out before I'm forcibly opted in and can possibly trigger the functionality. Even Windows 8 religiously asks you these questions at first boot after installation.

I guess you don't use Firefox as well, as they "force" you to use Google at first?

Yes I do use Firefox and that's a rather silly assertion if you consider the technical implementation.

In the case of Firefox, a default search page for Google is included in the Firefox Chrome as is a default search engine. The default page doesn't call home at all until you enter a search i.e. until you use it. The rest of the browser is functional without using this feature, so you can type "duckduckgo.com" without transmitting data to google.

The same is not true for the Unity shopping lens which transmits your searches for local data and applications on your workstation to Canonical and Amazon by default.

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

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Post by tresta »

vibrunazo wrote: post #16

One word of advice, don't do the automatic upgrade, do a full reinstall instead. After trying that for the last 5 or so releases. Always thinking that this time they fixed it. I'm not falling for that again. You'll see, as always, some reports of people saying they tried and it worked. But be careful, it's a trap!

I really don't understand why the upgrade seems to be so hit and miss between people. My current laptop has been on the same ubuntu install since (at least) 10.04. I've even upgraded to beta versions a couple of times and the only problem I've ever had was when I upgraded to the 12.10 beta and it ran out of disk space in the middle of the install. But that was recoverable.

Of course, this comment might be a trap. There's only one way to find out...

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

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Post by lhnn »

Everyone has their own preferred setup, and that's great! It's part of what makes FOSS great: Your choice.

My choice is Xubuntu. I've been using Xubuntu on my laptop for the past 6 months, and the 12.10 beta for the past two.

The link below is my tasklist after install to really make Xubuntu shine. Oh! And now with updates to the Ubiquity installer, FDE can be done with the GUI instead of fiddling with the debian-installer text partitioner!

http://wiki.cyberfoxfire.com/wiki/doku.php?id=tech:xubuntu_t...

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

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Post by timmillwood »

tresta wrote: post #25
timmillwood wrote: post #10

Might have to go and work from another computer as 12.10 installs on this one. Clean install really overdue as this machine started as Xubuntu 11.04 and is now Ubuntu 12.10 Beta.

If you have kept the beta up to date you're already on 12.10.

Right, but it's a little buggy due to being a mashup of Xubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 12.10.

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

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Post by timmillwood »

fiveliterstang wrote: post #2

Been using it a couple weeks now, it's actually not too bad. Trying to get used to Unity as it's obviously not going anywhere. I'm still not a fan but it is improving.

Unity has really grown on me, when it first came out I switched to Xfce, also train Mate, Cinnamon, Gnome3 and KDE, they all seem a little dated now compared to Unity.
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