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Ubuntu in 2013

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Re: Ubuntu in 2013

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This blog-post refers to, but doesn't cite, Ubuntu's recent integration of Amazon search results to the desktop and the inclusion of non-free apps in their App store. I liked the pragmatism and neutrality of this post.

Re: Ubuntu in 2013

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post #2

This blog-post refers to, but doesn't cite, Ubuntu's recent integration of Amazon search results to the desktop and the inclusion of non-free apps in their App store. I liked the pragmatism and neutrality of this post.

Er, Mark Shuttleworth is a big muckety muck for Canonical. This is a marketing piece.

Re: Ubuntu in 2013

#5

> "That’s why Unity in 2013 will be all about mobile" Cool, but don't fuck up my desktop experience with your experimentation like you have been doing.

Unity is all about fucked up. And gnome3 in 12.10 has been very unstable for me, getting rather frustrated.

Re: Ubuntu in 2013

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post #5

> "That’s why Unity in 2013 will be all about mobile" Cool, but don't fuck up my desktop experience with your experimentation like you have been doing.

Unity is all about fucked up. And gnome3 in 12.10 has been very unstable for me, getting rather frustrated.

I just switched to lubuntu, i recommend it even for powerful pcs

Re: Ubuntu in 2013

#7

> "That’s why Unity in 2013 will be all about mobile" Cool, but don't fuck up my desktop experience with your experimentation like you have been doing.

I assume they must be getting deals with some relatively big hardware manufacturers in that case. And hoping those manufacturers don't simply take the open source code from unity and use it to build their own system cutting canonical out of the loop altogether.

Re: Ubuntu in 2013

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it's hard to read that without feeling the huge weight of criticism (all the kow-towing and talking about experts). and then i come here and 2 out of 4 posts are complaining.

really, can't you just go somewhere else? ubuntu is fine for my laptop. it might even do for my mother's next time i visit. if you want something else, either use something else or at least have the graciousness to complain without "fuck up" and "muckety muck". you're beyond tiring. go away. please.

Re: Ubuntu in 2013

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post #5

> "That’s why Unity in 2013 will be all about mobile" Cool, but don't fuck up my desktop experience with your experimentation like you have been doing.

Unity is all about fucked up. And gnome3 in 12.10 has been very unstable for me, getting rather frustrated.

Well, Unity 2D was actually really ok for me, but Unity 3D -- now the only option out of the box -- is really FUBAR. I just rolled my girlfriend's laptop back to 12.04, and am going to sit there until next LTS probably.

Re: Ubuntu in 2013

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> "That’s why Unity in 2013 will be all about mobile" Cool, but don't fuck up my desktop experience with your experimentation like you have been doing.

Just switch to Xubuntu. Xfce isn't changing any time soon. None of the "interface innovation" Unity is notorious for.
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