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Bye Bye Ubuntu, a sad Christmas

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Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, a sad Christmas

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Post by slasaus »

darec1 wrote: post #3

So. Your updating your parents to a now obsolete operating system? Why not Windows 8?

For what I've read Windows 8 flourishes on tablets but can be a bit annoying/split minded when controlled by a mouse. This combined with the fact that most businesses will probably skip Windows 8 and stay with/move to 7 gives me the trust it will be maintained for a while.

Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, a sad Christmas

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Post by ch0wn »

My parents are on 12.04 and will be as long as the long term support lasts. I'm pretty sure forcing them to use Windows would mean a lot of telephone support for the next months. If anything, I would migrate them to another distribution.

I also don't really dislike the Amazon ads. I'm not so much concerned about privacy, but I find them very distracting and awfully implemented. However, it's only one ``sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping``. That is not going to make me change my default distribution.

Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, a sad Christmas

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Post by nical »

foolme wrote: post #2

It's sad to see what ubuntu have become.

I would rather say that it is sad to see Ubuntu going in a direction that doesn't align with your tastes/needs. I personally think Ubuntu is better today than ever before (for the most part).

Re: Bye Bye Ubuntu, a sad Christmas

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Post by antidoh »

darec1 wrote: post #3

So. Your updating your parents to a now obsolete operating system? Why not Windows 8?

Windows 7 will be supported for years (probably past the lifetime of many of the machines it's running on), and is well understood, and builds on years of similar previous versions.

Windows 8 is different enough that it's reasonable to watch from the sidelines for awhile.

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