Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

Post by ChickeNES » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 1:49 AM UTC

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As someone who has installed various distros on desktops and laptops many dozens of times (maybe over a hundred) since 1997, let me point out that while there's a decent chance of having no "real hassle or pain", the chance is not insignificant that you will spend hours trying to fix something that went awry during a reinstall. I'm definitely going to wait a little while to see if other people using packages I use ha…

Using the latest release of anything usually brings some issues, including Windows and Mac. I used to upgrade each time and with 12.04 I've decided to stay on it until 14.04. Skype, Eclipse, Steam, Netflix all work fine on 12.04 and 12.04's performance is great.

Post by djeikyb » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 2:31 AM UTC

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Last time I was using Ubuntu+Unity as my main desktop (11.xx), I used `xmodmap` to swap my keys, and found that every so often it'd be reverted. Have you experienced similar problems with this technique?

IIRC I didn't finding any easy way of making xmodmap settings persist over reboot, so I just took had a script that runs "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" run at startup. (Of course then I switched to xfce on my laptop, which seems to run its own xmodmap command after its run startup scripts or something which overrides them, which is kinda annoying, haven't found a nice way to get around that).

Post by X4 » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 2:52 AM UTC

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You could try out Sabayon Linux, it is basically a Gentoo with an installer and binary package manager. equo (rigo/apper for a GUI). The good thing is that it's backwards compatible to Gentoo's source based package manager "emerge" and a very easy to use. What Linux/Unix distro you use is up to you though and I will not start a debate. I understand that it makes sense in the enterprise field to only use the most popu…

I used Sabayon for about 2-3 years on my laptop with no complaints. I mean, it broke a few times, but that was my own fault, and I was always able to 'unbreak' it using recovery images and usually due to proprietary modules (grrr ATI). I finally stopped due to my laptop itself breaking; crunchbang is my new distro of choice for my desktop. Biggest upsides: fast(er) turnaround time on updating packages compared to Gen…

Post by arbutus » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 4:34 AM UTC

Post by wpietri » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 5:11 AM UTC

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Mozilla's bugzilla and mailing lists are approved posts only, that's not very open.

Source? I don't recall jumping through any hoops to post on Bugzilla or mozilla.dev.platform, and I definitely have no relationship with Mozilla.