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Re: New Ubuntu in 9 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes and 29 seconds

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Oh my god is that embarrassing. Some meaningless marketing spew, some social network stealth tracking widgets, and not a single link to any meaningful information. After the recent interresting design choices, the unity disaster and now this it is probably time to look for a distribution that doesn't think of it's users as mindless drones easily distracted by empty shiny things. Any recommendations?

Slackware and Arch Linux are great options if you're interested in exploring something a little more advanced. You'll have to put more work into setting up your system, particularly at first, but you will learn a lot more about how Linux works. They kind of throw you in the deep end, but they both have plenty of good documentation.

On the other hand, if you're looking for something not too far from Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora might be better options.

Re: New Ubuntu in 9 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes and 29 seconds

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I think the biggest clue Ubuntu should take from Apple is to show the product and how to use it. I am seriously interested in Ubuntu's progress, so after shaking my head looking at the countdown, I went to ubuntu.com and clicked on the big picture, only to be forwarded to a download page for Windows stuff. (I am using Safari on OS X.)

The point is not that I can't find information on what it is about. But why make it so hard and so little fun?

Re: New Ubuntu in 9 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes and 29 seconds

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post #10

Oh my god is that embarrassing. Some meaningless marketing spew, some social network stealth tracking widgets, and not a single link to any meaningful information. After the recent interresting design choices, the unity disaster and now this it is probably time to look for a distribution that doesn't think of it's users as mindless drones easily distracted by empty shiny things. Any recommendations?

Slackware and Arch Linux are great options if you're interested in exploring something a little more advanced. You'll have to put more work into setting up your system, particularly at first, but you will learn a lot more about how Linux works. They kind of throw you in the deep end, but they both have plenty of good documentation. On the other hand, if you're looking for something not too far from Ubuntu, Debian or…

Well, I started with slackware (well, actually SuSE when it was still a rebranded slackware, around linux 1.0.8ish), and I don't really want to dive into deep ends for my work machines anymore, I just want them to work and be moderately up to date. Ubuntu looked so promising at 7.04...

Re: New Ubuntu in 9 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes and 29 seconds

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post #10

Oh my god is that embarrassing. Some meaningless marketing spew, some social network stealth tracking widgets, and not a single link to any meaningful information. After the recent interresting design choices, the unity disaster and now this it is probably time to look for a distribution that doesn't think of it's users as mindless drones easily distracted by empty shiny things. Any recommendations?

I would suggest Mint as an option, too. They have a version based on Ubuntu, and one built straight on Debian.

Re: New Ubuntu in 9 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes and 29 seconds

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Slackware and Arch Linux are great options if you're interested in exploring something a little more advanced. You'll have to put more work into setting up your system, particularly at first, but you will learn a lot more about how Linux works. They kind of throw you in the deep end, but they both have plenty of good documentation. On the other hand, if you're looking for something not too far from Ubuntu, Debian or…

Well, I started with slackware (well, actually SuSE when it was still a rebranded slackware, around linux 1.0.8ish), and I don't really want to dive into deep ends for my work machines anymore, I just want them to work and be moderately up to date. Ubuntu looked so promising at 7.04...

10.10 was the last before Unity. 10.04 is LTS (long term support) until April 2013.

Re: New Ubuntu in 9 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes and 29 seconds

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post #10

Oh my god is that embarrassing. Some meaningless marketing spew, some social network stealth tracking widgets, and not a single link to any meaningful information. After the recent interresting design choices, the unity disaster and now this it is probably time to look for a distribution that doesn't think of it's users as mindless drones easily distracted by empty shiny things. Any recommendations?

Archlinux.. Everytime I re-install it and see "make command not found" is a priceless moment for me. You really build your own OS over time.. installing only what you need. Everything is kept simple (simple as in there's not 10 levels of abstraction to change a keybinding or whatever). Maybe the most important thing about arch is the package manager (pacman); it's simply great.

Re: New Ubuntu in 9 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes and 29 seconds

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post #17
post #10

Oh my god is that embarrassing. Some meaningless marketing spew, some social network stealth tracking widgets, and not a single link to any meaningful information. After the recent interresting design choices, the unity disaster and now this it is probably time to look for a distribution that doesn't think of it's users as mindless drones easily distracted by empty shiny things. Any recommendations?

Archlinux.. Everytime I re-install it and see "make command not found" is a priceless moment for me. You really build your own OS over time.. installing only what you need. Everything is kept simple (simple as in there's not 10 levels of abstraction to change a keybinding or whatever). Maybe the most important thing about arch is the package manager (pacman); it's simply great.

Oh, something great about Arch also is the documentation. It's awesome; the best I've seen so far.

Re: New Ubuntu in 9 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes and 29 seconds

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post #10

Oh my god is that embarrassing. Some meaningless marketing spew, some social network stealth tracking widgets, and not a single link to any meaningful information. After the recent interresting design choices, the unity disaster and now this it is probably time to look for a distribution that doesn't think of it's users as mindless drones easily distracted by empty shiny things. Any recommendations?

now this it is probably time to look for a distribution that doesn't think of it's users as mindless drones easily distracted by empty shiny things

Well it.... did... make it to the Top spot on...ummm.. HN....

Oh well, I always thought archlinux has a interesting philosophy of simplicity and I also like rolling releases

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