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Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available

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"Avoid the pain of Windows 8." Well done Canonical..well done. Here's a nice alternative for those having problems with the site. http://releases.ubuntu.com/quantal/

Stabbing others in the back is no way to behave, especially when they're pumping what the user types in the launcher straight at amazon and closing bugs when people complain that their launcher commands are showing inappropriate images.

Ubuntu BUG #1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-shoppin... Make sure you disable the shopping lens before searching in public. Amazon searches can be NSFW! Don't search for analyze in a school or Saudi Arabia. I think that this is unacceptable default behaviour but currently seems to be a WON'T FIX.

Better yet, make sure you remove Unity altogether. I've been using Quantal since beta 1, and while Cinnamon wasn't so stable for me, Gnome 3.6 works smoothly.

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available

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I'm a little confused. I don't see a change log. I also don't see an easy way to upgrade from 12.04 which is what I currently run. Do I need to do a full reinstall? Am I missing something? (probably)

It wasn't showing up in update manager for me on 12.04 LTS. Fire up Terminal and run 'update-manager -d' and it should show up.

By default it only notifies about Long Term Support (LTS) releases, go to preferences and set it to "every release".

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available

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I'm a little confused. I don't see a change log. I also don't see an easy way to upgrade from 12.04 which is what I currently run. Do I need to do a full reinstall? Am I missing something? (probably)

It wasn't showing up in update manager for me on 12.04 LTS. Fire up Terminal and run 'update-manager -d' and it should show up.

This worked for me. Thanks!

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available

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"Avoid the pain of Windows 8" And say hello to the pain of not finding suitable drivers for half your devices.

This is a cliched reply that would be appropriate a few years ago.

Nowadays, I've found that I can install Ubuntu on more laptops and desktops and get better driver support from the initial install than even Windows can in many cases.

With Windows, I've had to scrounge around for drivers and pray they're compatible with Windows 8 Professional 64bit Premium Plus Bonus edition on the same laptops.

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available

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"Avoid the pain of Windows 8" And say hello to the pain of not finding suitable drivers for half your devices.

This is a cliched reply that would be appropriate a few years ago. Nowadays, I've found that I can install Ubuntu on more laptops and desktops and get better driver support from the initial install than even Windows can in many cases. With Windows, I've had to scrounge around for drivers and pray they're compatible with Windows 8 Professional 64bit Premium Plus Bonus edition on the same laptops.

My list so far:

  No official Google Drive[0] support (but we do have Dropbox)
  No official Garmin Connect[1] support 
All in all, that's not bad. All monitors, ebook readers, mp3 players, cameras, printers, wifi, mice/keyboards have all been perfect out of the box for years (for me).

[0]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/161273/is-there-a-google-driv...

[1]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/505/how-can-i-use-my-garmin-d...

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stabbing others in the back is no way to behave, especially when they're pumping what the user types in the launcher straight at amazon and closing bugs when people complain that their launcher commands are showing inappropriate images.

So you are saying Windows 8 is bad means backstabbing Microsoft? Everyone seems to be doing that lately. As far as I know they're not sending the requests directly to Amazon and there are currently 2 ways to disable that. Have you tried disabling metro ? Good luck with that. Also Dash no longer displays adult content from Amazon.

You know how the IE team sent (do they still?) cakes to Mozilla for Firefox major version releases? This is the opposite of that.
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