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Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by sandGorgon »

yownie wrote: post #83
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

I have found that most of the complaints about Gnome-Shell being bloated comes from installing it on top of a desktop running Unity - which has a whole bunch of stuff running in the background.

Removing Unity and installing Gnome (which is far more configurable because of http://extensions.gnome.org) has turned out to be really lean for me.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by puppetmaster3 »

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?

Arch makes it easy: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Based_Distribution... Majaro has Steam built in.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by Alterlife »

commandar wrote: post #219
CodeMage wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1) It's a search box. Stuff not typed in the search box never leaves the machine (unless you count things that do by design, such as web browsers and email, obviously). The Unity Dash search box is placed where every user would normally expect a local-only search to happen. There is no reason whatsoever for me to expect the Unity Dash search to return results from the Internet, just like I wouldn't expect the search…

>There is no reason whatsoever for me to expect the Unity Dash search to return results from the Internet, just like I wouldn't expect the search box in Windows 7 Start Menu to do so. This is the default behavior in W8.1, however.

> This is the default behavior in W8.1, however.

The OS that we all love ^_^ .

Seriously though: from my perspective search results from the internet aren't the problem. Advertisements are.

Linux Mint with it's forced custom search in combination with Ubuntu Unity have the potential to turn the populatiion of 'casual' Linux converts back into Windows users. The question of how a free OS can be free is answered: they show you advertisements, and they put your personal data at risk.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by telephonetemp »

rlpb wrote: post #105
alcari wrote: post #97

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It's a search box that many people will use exclusively to search for _local_ content. Why should Amazon know what programs and files I'm using?

> It's a search box that many people will use exclusively to search for _local_ content. That still doesn't make it a privacy violation, since you know where your searches are going (as does any other user, since it's obvious based on the results). > Why should Amazon know what programs and files I'm using? It makes the normal user's life more convenient since he doesn't need to figure out which box to type something…

>Users are well known for typing web addresses into any box available.

OTOH, such users might not be aware that their Amazon searches are collected and data-mined.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by sandGorgon »

nisa wrote: post #73
sandGorgon wrote: post #60

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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

I'm actually quite happy with Ubuntu and Unity. There are some annoying bugs and I've switched to KDE recently but Unity is overall fine in my opinion. I'd always take Unity over Gnome. But well let's not start this discussion. To each his own.. I just don't like all the Canonical addons I don't use. So I remove them. Regarding swap compression: I'm happy with zcache¹. zramswap is out of date and buggy for me (I'm no…

thanks for this! Just removed zram-config and updated guide.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by tete »

zx2c4 wrote: post #102

Solution: stop using Ubuntu. There are lots of other very able distributions out there, many of which not only have better privacy features but also are technologically superior in one way or another. In no particular order, these are all very capable operating systems for a variety of needs: * https://fedoraproject.org/ * http://www.centos.org/ * http://www.opensuse.org/ * http://www.mageia.org/ * https://www.archli…

Okay, this will make me sound like fanboyism (I guess it is, but I am an Arch user - with our company running their servers on FreeBSD), but you might also like:

* http://www.slackware.com/

* http://www.freebsd.org/

* http://www.netbsd.org/

* http://www.openbsd.org/

* http://www.dragonflybsd.org/

All of them are used in production, search engines (at least FreeBSD (Google backends and DuckDuckGo) and DragonFly BSD), space crafts (at least NetBSD (ISS)), internet service providers (all of them), resarch agencies (all of them), US government/military (well, I am not sure about DragonFly BSD in this case).

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by _cipher_ »

rlpb wrote: post #51

I (still) don't think online searches are a privacy violation. 1) It's a search box. Stuff not typed in the search box never leaves the machine (unless you count things that do by design, such as web browsers and email, obviously). 2) It's plainly obvious the first time you use it that results are coming back from the Internet. No real user is going to be misled into believing that searches are local. This makes it n…

> 1) It's a search box. Stuff not typed in the search box never leaves the machine (unless you count things that do by design, such as web browsers and email, obviously).

Imagine the scenario where you >searchbox

  ./random/path/file pattern
  ./random/path/file2 pattern
  hxxp://www.amazon.com/product-with-pattern-name
Nice, right? You performed a search. Why not go public? Hell, why not go over plain text?

Take it even further. Visit amazon or c@n0nical's site and be welcomed with your hostname. Great, eh? And while you're at it, send all patterns to NSA as well, because, ummm, it's a "search box".

Do you still think that this is not a privacy violation?

C@n0nical has become a pimp.

Seems that many people erased POSIX and privacy from their dictionary.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by DannyBee »

rlpb wrote: post #184
DannyBee wrote: post #137

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" Traffic generated by users being misled into going there is not legitimate in terms of the trademark." FixUbuntu is a very very very very clear case of nominative fair use. I can't think of a less close case in recent memory. They are using the trademark as it should be used - to describe the product they are talking about. The fact that Ubuntu may not like what they are saying makes no difference. The disclaimer m…

No, it's passing off, which is a violation of trademark law. Using the name Ubuntu to describe and criticize the product Ubuntu is fine. Appearing to be an official website to lure visitors in is not. That's passing off. If walk into a branded store only to find a notice that it isn't actually that brand, it's still passing off. > The disclaimer makes clear it's not associated... This was only added in response to th…

1. Passing off only applies to unregistered trademarks. For registered trademarks, it's just trademark infringement. Since ubuntu is a registered mark (or so they mention in the C&D), passing off simply would not apply.

2. Nominative fair use, as I mentioned, is a complete defense to trademark infringement (including passing off), and most other related things, including dilution.

If FixUbuntu claimed or implied they had a business relationship/etc, there would be an issue. They don't.

Trademarks do not give you the ability to stop others from using certain words, they give you the ability to stop others from confusing consumers about the source of goods.

Plus, you know, criticism of products is among the most protected speech possible when it comes to trademarks ...

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