this is totally childish, i have been using ubuntu for last 6 years and never have had complains with their working. they used to do splendid job by delivering the cds at door steps in shipit program. but this step of defaming competitors is never gonna help, it is going to become a part of criticism.
Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available
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Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available
#42"Avoid the pain of Windows 8." Well done Canonical..well done. Here's a nice alternative for those having problems with the site. http://releases.ubuntu.com/quantal/
"Avoid the pain of Windows 8."
I've been running Windows 8 since the RTM went to MSDN. I adjusted to the cheese-moving pain of Windows 8 within a week.
Four months into Ubuntu with Unity I eventually adjusted to the cheese-moving pain of Unity by switching to Mint.
Ubuntu has no leg to stand on when it comes to new versions of an OS making unwanted changes to UX.
[Before anyone chimes in here, I know you can set up Ubuntu to work with other desktops than Unity, but IMO there's not really a compelling reason to stick with it when the out-of-the-box experience is inferior to another distro.]
Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available
#43Say, has somebody come up with a clever way for me to try this and then revert if I'd rather stick with 12.04 LTS? Besides, of course, backing up and restoring everything?
Well, what you can do is boot from a live usb stick, mount your drive, move /* to /old/ and install afresh. If everything works as desired, you can move back your /home/user directory or selectively get your home directory back. If you don't like it, move everything back. Then you only need to restore grub, which should be easily doable using a chroot from the live media.
Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available
#44"Avoid the pain of Windows 8." Well done Canonical..well done. Here's a nice alternative for those having problems with the site. http://releases.ubuntu.com/quantal/
Stabbing others in the back is no way to behave, especially when they're pumping what the user types in the launcher straight at amazon and closing bugs when people complain that their launcher commands are showing inappropriate images.
Lots of people are quick to jump on this "Avoid the pain of Windows 8" comment but people need to relax. Their is something major being overlooked here. Ubuntu is giving away their OS for FREE. $0
Windows 8 will be cheaper than previous Windows upgrades but lets not forget about the pillars of free software and why to support it.
Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available
#45"Avoid the pain of Windows 8" And say hello to the pain of not finding suitable drivers for half your devices.
That notion is pretty alien to me. I've thrown Ubuntu onto some pretty useless old machines and had better hardware support. Example: I found out a couple of years ago that two-finger scrolling was possible on an nine-year old machine. The option to enable this in Synaptics/Windows simply wasn't there.
Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a cliched reply that would be appropriate a few years ago. Nowadays, I've found that I can install Ubuntu on more laptops and desktops and get better driver support from the initial install than even Windows can in many cases. With Windows, I've had to scrounge around for drivers and pray they're compatible with Windows 8 Professional 64bit Premium Plus Bonus edition on the same laptops.
My list so far: No official Google Drive[0] support (but we do have Dropbox) No official Garmin Connect[1] support All in all, that's not bad. All monitors, ebook readers, mp3 players, cameras, printers, wifi, mice/keyboards have all been perfect out of the box for years (for me). [0]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/161273/is-there-a-google-driv... [1]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/505/how-can-i-use-my-garmin-d...
The only thing that really annoys me is that the Google Nexus 7 (and apparently all other Android 4 devices) use MTP now, which is still kind of a hassle to get working reliably.
Apart from that I totally have to agree with you - even the proprietary graphic card drivers haven't given me any real problems for the last 2 years.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
So you are saying Windows 8 is bad means backstabbing Microsoft? Everyone seems to be doing that lately. As far as I know they're not sending the requests directly to Amazon and there are currently 2 ways to disable that. Have you tried disabling metro ? Good luck with that. Also Dash no longer displays adult content from Amazon.
You know how the IE team sent (do they still?) cakes to Mozilla for Firefox major version releases? This is the opposite of that.
They stopped sending cakes once the Firefox team started releasing versions faster to get more cakes from Microsoft.
Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available
#48"Avoid the pain of Windows 8." Well done Canonical..well done. Here's a nice alternative for those having problems with the site. http://releases.ubuntu.com/quantal/
"Avoid the pain of Windows 8." I've been running Windows 8 since the RTM went to MSDN. I adjusted to the cheese-moving pain of Windows 8 within a week. Four months into Ubuntu with Unity I eventually adjusted to the cheese-moving pain of Unity by switching to Mint. Ubuntu has no leg to stand on when it comes to new versions of an OS making unwanted changes to UX. [Before anyone chimes in here, I know you can set up U…
Forgive me, but I don't know what you mean by "cheese-moving pain". Two questions: first, is this a well-known term that I've just not run across? And second, what do you mean by it? (And if the answer to 1 is "no" then, WTH?)
Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available
#49"Avoid the pain of Windows 8." Well done Canonical..well done. Here's a nice alternative for those having problems with the site. http://releases.ubuntu.com/quantal/
Stabbing others in the back is no way to behave, especially when they're pumping what the user types in the launcher straight at amazon and closing bugs when people complain that their launcher commands are showing inappropriate images.
'Stabbing in the back' generally implies betraying someone who trusted you. I don't think that's really applicable here: Canonical are directly competing with Microsoft.
For what it's worth, that slogan seems to have been changed now: the home page now just says "Your wish is our command." Though I'm sure critics will still see plenty of irony there.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Avoid the pain of Windows 8." I've been running Windows 8 since the RTM went to MSDN. I adjusted to the cheese-moving pain of Windows 8 within a week. Four months into Ubuntu with Unity I eventually adjusted to the cheese-moving pain of Unity by switching to Mint. Ubuntu has no leg to stand on when it comes to new versions of an OS making unwanted changes to UX. [Before anyone chimes in here, I know you can set up U…
Forgive me, but I don't know what you mean by "cheese-moving pain". Two questions: first, is this a well-known term that I've just not run across? And second, what do you mean by it? (And if the answer to 1 is "no" then, WTH?)