Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released • Hacker News Board

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

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Post by patrickaljord » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 9:12 AM UTC

meaty wrote: post #7

ekianjo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can disable it after installation.

I want the option to opt out before I'm forcibly opted in and can possibly trigger the functionality. Even Windows 8 religiously asks you these questions at first boot after installation.

Windows 8 isn't gratis, you can complain but you can't demand anything from a free (as in gratis) product.

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

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Post by thomaslutz » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 9:15 AM UTC

Switched to Mint with MATE (Gnome2 Fork) and am not looking back. Give it a try, it's worth it.

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

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Post by digisign » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 9:15 AM UTC

It's not yet released and ars didn't say it was released, rather:

    Ars has its hands on 12.10 and we'll be bringing you a
    full review within the next couple of weeks.

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

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Post by thomaslutz » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 9:16 AM UTC

fiveliterstang wrote: post #2

Been using it a couple weeks now, it's actually not too bad. Trying to get used to Unity as it's obviously not going anywhere. I'm still not a fan but it is improving.

If you liked Gnome2, try MATE with Linux Mint.

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

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Post by rk0567 » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 9:24 AM UTC

thomaslutz wrote: post #14

fiveliterstang wrote: post #2

Been using it a couple weeks now, it's actually not too bad. Trying to get used to Unity as it's obviously not going anywhere. I'm still not a fan but it is improving.

If you liked Gnome2, try MATE with Linux Mint.

what about Cinnamon ? that is cool too.

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

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Post by vibrunazo » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 9:24 AM UTC

One word of advice, don't do the automatic upgrade, do a full reinstall instead. After trying that for the last 5 or so releases. Always thinking that this time they fixed it. I'm not falling for that again. You'll see, as always, some reports of people saying they tried and it worked. But be careful, it's a trap!

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

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Post by meaty » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 9:27 AM UTC

patrickaljord wrote: post #11

meaty wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want the option to opt out before I'm forcibly opted in and can possibly trigger the functionality. Even Windows 8 religiously asks you these questions at first boot after installation.

Windows 8 isn't gratis, you can complain but you can't demand anything from a free (as in gratis) product.

You can't demand anything from a non-free product either so I don't get what the difference is.

However, I can not use it which is how I've decided to deal with this issue.

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

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Post by rk0567 » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 9:28 AM UTC

meaty wrote: post #5

Have they turned the Amazon stuff off by default or are they giving an option to do so at install time? If not, I will not be downloading this.

`sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping`

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

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Post by moystard » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 9:30 AM UTC

meaty wrote: post #7

ekianjo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can disable it after installation.

I want the option to opt out before I'm forcibly opted in and can possibly trigger the functionality. Even Windows 8 religiously asks you these questions at first boot after installation.

I guess you don't use Firefox as well, as they "force" you to use Google at first?

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

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Post by andyking » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 9:33 AM UTC

fiveliterstang wrote: post #2

Been using it a couple weeks now, it's actually not too bad. Trying to get used to Unity as it's obviously not going anywhere. I'm still not a fan but it is improving.

I couldn't get used to Unity and didn't want to stick with the increasingly antiquated and patched-up 10.04, so I made the switch a while ago at home to Xubuntu.

It's not the perfect desktop, but I've got it almost how I want it, and it largely gets out of my way. I particularly enjoy the two-second login time.