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Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by CSDude »

leaveyou wrote: post #20
sandGorgon wrote: post #15

I really recommend trying out the Ubuntu Gnome flavor [1] - I really like it as being more usable than Unity. Plus https://extensions.gnome.org/ is incredible. P.S. - [2] this is my personal optimization script for a lean and developer friendly Gnome Ubuntu 14.04 install. YMMV. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME [2] https://gist.github.com/sandys/6030823#file-lean_install_ubu...

I'm a Unity & Xface (short time) user and honestly I find the latest Unity version to be well suited for my needs&habits but your recommendation made me curios but not curios enough to wipe out my current (fresh) Unity install in order to try out Gnome. I think I checked Gnome some time in the past and it didn't convince me to stay with it. If you would like to enumerate some of the (newer?) differences and strong po…

I don't like Unity animations and I want to change it. The only way to do that is to change compiz plugins. However, they always break. Gnome extensions are way easier to install, and even you can code them because it is JS/CSS, for that reason there are so many extensions in extensions.gnome.org .

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by sandGorgon »

leaveyou wrote: post #20
sandGorgon wrote: post #15

I really recommend trying out the Ubuntu Gnome flavor [1] - I really like it as being more usable than Unity. Plus https://extensions.gnome.org/ is incredible. P.S. - [2] this is my personal optimization script for a lean and developer friendly Gnome Ubuntu 14.04 install. YMMV. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME [2] https://gist.github.com/sandys/6030823#file-lean_install_ubu...

I'm a Unity & Xface (short time) user and honestly I find the latest Unity version to be well suited for my needs&habits but your recommendation made me curios but not curios enough to wipe out my current (fresh) Unity install in order to try out Gnome. I think I checked Gnome some time in the past and it didn't convince me to stay with it. If you would like to enumerate some of the (newer?) differences and strong po…

it's mostly the UX - I really like the way Gnome gets out of your way and still is very, very slick.

Plus, if you dont like certain things - you can customize it within seconds using extensions.gnome.org (for example - https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/15/alternatetab/ )

I think all the design decision by Unity are a bit jarring for me - including all the left-window-close-maximize things. BTW, if you follow my script, Unity is not really wiped out, but certain heavy applications (like Nautilus/Gedit) are replaced by lightweight alternatives (like Nemo/Geany).

P.S. were you not surprised by the weird way Nautilus groups icons now ?

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by SEMW »

StavrosK wrote: post #19
pan69 wrote: post #7

I just took XUbuntu for a spin. It's just as great as the 13.10 release. If you're a GNOME refugee and looking for an excellent desktop then I can't recommend XUbuntu enough.

I'm having weird issues with Gnome-Do, sometimes it just won't show up. It will run, but it won't show up, and killing it and relaunching it doesn't do anything. I think the hotkey just bugs out sometimes, and I have to relog for it to work. Weird.

Alternatives: kupfer (in the repositories) or synapse (ppa:synapse-core/testing ppa has a trusty build). I moved from gnome-do to synapse a while ago just because it feels faster.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

sanswork wrote: post #18
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly though, it seems perfectly acceptable on here to express positive feelings about style and esthetics. No one gets downvoted several points below zero for not providing "arguments" for such opinions. It's simply accepted as a matter of taste.

When someone is agreeing you already know what they are looking for as they've expressed it in their agreement. When someone says something is ugly you don't know what they think is ugly about the design so it doesn't provide any thing but a comment.

No, I often don't know what it is that makes people gush about the beauty of multi faceted things like operating systems, gadgets or APIs.

But be that as it may, I doubt this is what causes the downvoting. I'm pretty sure a statement like "colors and icons are ugly" would have provoked a similar reaction.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by onli »

leaveyou wrote: post #20
sandGorgon wrote: post #15

I really recommend trying out the Ubuntu Gnome flavor [1] - I really like it as being more usable than Unity. Plus https://extensions.gnome.org/ is incredible. P.S. - [2] this is my personal optimization script for a lean and developer friendly Gnome Ubuntu 14.04 install. YMMV. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME [2] https://gist.github.com/sandys/6030823#file-lean_install_ubu...

I'm a Unity & Xface (short time) user and honestly I find the latest Unity version to be well suited for my needs&habits but your recommendation made me curios but not curios enough to wipe out my current (fresh) Unity install in order to try out Gnome. I think I checked Gnome some time in the past and it didn't convince me to stay with it. If you would like to enumerate some of the (newer?) differences and strong po…

You don't need to wipe anything. Just install ubuntu-gnome-desktop and select gnome 3 on login.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by leaveyou »

shacharz wrote: post #23

Why is the download so slow? Why not add a torrent link?

Ubuntu is more popular than you would think :). I used torrents to download it and it went quite fast (huge numbers of seeders). Here you can find torrent links: reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/239wbp/1404_is_live/

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by walshemj »

so have they put back the key bits of xwindows they removed in a provious LTS - I was not happy after setting up my small hadoop home lab to find that some idiot PFY had removed teh fuctionaly that made remote login possible!

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by leaveyou »

onli wrote: post #27
leaveyou wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a Unity & Xface (short time) user and honestly I find the latest Unity version to be well suited for my needs&habits but your recommendation made me curios but not curios enough to wipe out my current (fresh) Unity install in order to try out Gnome. I think I checked Gnome some time in the past and it didn't convince me to stay with it. If you would like to enumerate some of the (newer?) differences and strong po…

You don't need to wipe anything. Just install ubuntu-gnome-desktop and select gnome 3 on login.

I tried that some time ago with 13.10 & xface-desktop and I ended up with some weird mix of the two (randomly some parts from unity and some fonts and menus + shutdwon splash screen definitely from xface). And I was not able to totally remove the xface packages from unity again. So I'm quite reluctant now :).
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