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Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by rodolphoarruda »

sandGorgon wrote: post #60
nisa wrote: post #29

My personal fix Ubuntu: Be careful, this is pretty rude and may break stuff - it is also not complete but some dependencies are too entangled. Only geoclue and indicator-datetime still annoy me. The idea to poll the internet regulary to check for the timezone of the machine is beyond me. apt-get purge ubuntuone* # I don't use it apt-get purge unity-lens-music unity-lens-video unity-lens-photos # I don't need the inte…

here's mine - http://www.lambdacurry.com/super-fast-lean-ubuntu-setup/ It removes Unity and switches to gnome-shell, removes nautilus and other stuff and replaces it with nemo, geany, etc. I do have some additional tweaks to improve wifi, etc. but the base install brings my RSS with firefox (I consider that a minimum) to about 500 mb on 12.04

What's wrong with Nautilus? I'm just curious.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by Nursie »

danielweber wrote: post #48
gecko wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty openly not a Linux desktop user, but come on: if Windows hasn't rearranged core functionality in the XP to Vista/7 transition, and again in the 7 to 8 transition, and again (less so, but noticeably) in the 8 to 8.1 transition, then I don't know what your standard is. (Apple's been better about it following the initial iOS-esque feature landings, but that, too, was disruptive.) Conversely, Ubuntu's operated…

I really haven't noticed a big difference between XP to 7. The control panel things moved around a bit, but the settings were all still in the Control Panel (and you could get the classic view back easily), and I had to figure out how to right-click on things "run as Admin". My son just hopped from XP to 7 and he's been having zero issues. I admit I haven't gone to Windows 8. I owe myself a new laptop and I just have…

XP->7 was probably way easier than doing it with Vista as an intermediate!

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by yownie »

nisa wrote: post #29

My personal fix Ubuntu: Be careful, this is pretty rude and may break stuff - it is also not complete but some dependencies are too entangled. Only geoclue and indicator-datetime still annoy me. The idea to poll the internet regulary to check for the timezone of the machine is beyond me. apt-get purge ubuntuone* # I don't use it apt-get purge unity-lens-music unity-lens-video unity-lens-photos # I don't need the inte…

This is great! It's nice to know there's others out there ripping out unknown unity shit too! Do you have any idea what the following do and if they can be removed easily also ? goa-daemon, zeitgeist, mission-control, bamfdaemon

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by justincormack »

rizalp wrote: post #71
Pxtl wrote: post #16

All Linux distros should be free charities and their developers should eat catfood and ramen.

It's funny how the history repeat itself when the company that support certain disro want to monetize it. A long time ago, it's Redhat. Then, SUSE with their licensing deal with Microsoft. Anyone knows what happens to Xandros and Mandriva? I think Canonical should be more honest that they need money. People would gladly pay for stable OS that is supported long enough. I think the combination of Stable OS, lots of App…

They are quite open, you can pay on the download screen http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/questions?distro=desk...

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by nikatwork »

Piskvorrr wrote: post #56
Pxtl wrote: post #16

All Linux distros should be free charities and their developers should eat catfood and ramen.

Bzzt, logical fallacy - "either work for free, or snoop around in user's data for monetizable content." Hint: there's a very, very wide spectrum between these extremes.

Bzzt, middlebrow dismissal. How about you make a concrete proposal on how you think Canonical's business model should be constructed, instead of "computer says no"?

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by sbarre »

I really like the disclaimer in the bottom right. Except for the "idiot" part at the beginning which I feel cheapens the message, it is very well written in clear language.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by sillysaurus2 »

mdeslaur wrote: post #41
cs702 wrote: post #28

Ubuntu provides by default an on/off slider in its privacy settings for disabling the display of online search results in the dash[1], BUT I'm not sure if changing that slider to 'off' will also disable the sharing of searches with Canonical's servers. (The language used by the settings app is ambiguous: "When searching on the dash, include online search results - ON/OFF.") Moreover, I don't particularly feel like sp…

Yes, it's supposed to disable it completely.

supposed to

What's with the ambiguity? Does it disable it or not?

I feel silly for asking, but the question was about ambiguous language, so the reply was ironic.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by sbarre »

NateDad wrote: post #24

If people did 30 seconds of searching they'd realize this information is available on the official Stack Exchange site AskUbuntu.com which is directly supported by Canonical's paid staff: http://askubuntu.com/questions/192269/how-can-i-remove-amazo...

True but this site also acts as criticism to the approach in the first place, and also guarantees that this information will remain available and findable in the future, should Canonical change its mind about making this information easy to find.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by Derpdiherp »

splawn wrote: post #35
harel wrote: post #19

As a Gnome user all this Unity madness just went over my head - I never had to deal with it. But there are things that keep breaking from one release to the other (for which I blame myself for having twitchy update-trigger fingers). But as a whole I'm a happy user in particular that now Steam is on Linux. My question is - how does Steam work on the Ubuntu derivatives like Xubuntu and Mint? Will it work on Debian?

Steam works fine on both Xubuntu and Mint. Haven't tried it on Debian yet

I use Steam on Debian stable and it works absolutely fine, I've never had an issue with it. The games run great too.
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