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Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by tcfunk »

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...

Giving it a try now, but I have to say the amount of space wasted by the header bar of each window really bothers me.

Example: http://i.imgur.com/bKGyEo3.png

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by davidw »

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 recently moved to xfce on Ubuntu as well. I felt like it's much more "by hackers for hackers" than the Ubuntu or Gnome UI stuff. For instance, I can have my 10 virtual workspaces, and focus follows mouse and all the other things I've gotten used to having over the past 15+ years.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by danford »

etfb wrote: post #68

Well, that was fun. The upgrade crashed halfway through. I rebooted in recovery mode, finished the upgrade using the dpkg repair option, and then restarted a few times and found that it still wasn't working. Looked like a video problem, so I checked /etc/X11 and found the xorg.conf files had been backed up and not replaced. A comment in the last one inspired me to run nvidia-xconfig and it worked fine. Pretty typical…

I had a problem upgrading to the beta a few weeks ago. I had some conflicting/broken packages and the installation couldn't finish. It seems the WM crashed and I was unable to access a terminal until I remembered I could switch to a tty. Ran `apt-get -f install` and fixed everything. Haven't had an issue on the official release yet though.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by kosinus »

jcastro wrote: post #41
troels wrote: post #14

Anyone has a guess of when there'll be an official image on aws?

Cloud images are always published directly as part of the release. You can find the list here for reference: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/trusty/current/

Those are daily builds. Releases are here: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/14.04/release/

But I'm actually not sure which is better? I'm guessing dailies are the same as releases, but with updates already applied? If so, dailies are probably better.

And then there's and AMI locator: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by danford »

shrikrishna wrote: post #63
Zardoz84 wrote: post #46

I really recommend trying out the Ubuntu KDE flavour (KUbuntu). I really like it as being more usable and configurable than Unity and Gnome.

I completely agree with you on this. The level of customization that can be done with KDE is unparalleled. Every bit of it is hackable

GNOME is extremely customizable too if you know JavaScript and CSS, plus you get the advantage of a much lighter interface. It does lack some of the features of KDE though, but I don't spend much time outside of a terminal, text editor, browser, and pdf reader.

KDE has to many buttons for me :)

I think it's more of a desktop for people who are use to using a lot of advanced features on Windows, because they're used to and enjoy the idea of having a button for this and a window and sub-menu for that. GNOME is more for people who either don't use advanced features, or use the terminal for advanced features.

Personally I'm over the traditional desktop.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by pgrote »

etfb wrote: post #68

Well, that was fun. The upgrade crashed halfway through. I rebooted in recovery mode, finished the upgrade using the dpkg repair option, and then restarted a few times and found that it still wasn't working. Looked like a video problem, so I checked /etc/X11 and found the xorg.conf files had been backed up and not replaced. A comment in the last one inspired me to run nvidia-xconfig and it worked fine. Pretty typical…

What issues did you experience going from XP to 7? Did it happen to involve network drivers?

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by danford »

Zardoz84 wrote: post #46

I really recommend trying out the Ubuntu KDE flavour (KUbuntu). I really like it as being more usable and configurable than Unity and Gnome.

Eh.. I think it's only more usable if you're coming from and are used to a traditional desktop like Windows. If you were introducing someone to a computer for the first time, GNOME 3 is by far the most simple and easiest to use desktop on the market right now. Yes even more usable than windows 8 for someone who has never used an OS before.

As for configurability KDE has quite a few more years under it's belt, so it's not a surprise, but GNOME 3 is all JS and CSS so I would say it's pretty configurable and the number of extensions is only going to increase. I think extensions will become much more stable around GNOME 4.0, when they come out with a full OS [1]

[1]http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE0ODg

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