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

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Post by alecbenzer »

phzbOx wrote: post #17
fhars wrote: 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.

imo gentoo was even more like that for me. there's not even an installer (at least there wasn't when I was doing it). you're literally just running commands and moving files around

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

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Post by Dylan16807 »

rbanffy wrote: post #25
fhars wrote: 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?

> and not a single link to any meaningful information How hard is it to type "ubuntu" in your browser? It's a countdown.

"ubuntu" tells me the location of the countdown and not much more. It doesn't tell me what is going to happen in this new release, why they're making a fuss, why I should care.

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

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Post by kylemathews »

kiwidrew wrote: post #31

I've just updated to the 11.10 beta2, and my experience so far has not been promising. My main gripe (as expected) is that the Unity desktop is the only option now; while it is possible to install GNOME 3 and use that, it lacks the polish of 11.04's GNOME desktop and is clearly in an unfinished state. As a developer, Unity's handling of multiple terminal windows is extraordinarily ham-fisted. Say you have a web brows…

Yes, the new alt-tab window switcher is horrid for the reasons you describe. I gave up on it after a day or so and switched back to the older window switcher via the CompizConfig Settings Manager.

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

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Post by Or1on »

Here are a couple of applications that can improve the Unity experience. Superswitcher which is an awesome alt+tab alternative, Unity 2D for performance (no compiz) and gnome-do because It has features unavailable on unity app launcher.

My favorite superswitcher features is that I can change to an opened window by typing its name. Switching windows this way is very fast and has improved my work flow greatly. http://code.google.com/p/superswitcher/ I have superswitcher set to capslock key since I don't usually use capslock.

I also use and like unity super+NUMBER key launchers.

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

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Post by alperakgun »

davidcuddeback wrote: post #40
kiwidrew wrote: post #31

I've just updated to the 11.10 beta2, and my experience so far has not been promising. My main gripe (as expected) is that the Unity desktop is the only option now; while it is possible to install GNOME 3 and use that, it lacks the polish of 11.04's GNOME desktop and is clearly in an unfinished state. As a developer, Unity's handling of multiple terminal windows is extraordinarily ham-fisted. Say you have a web brows…

> As a developer, Unity's handling of multiple terminal windows is extraordinarily ham-fisted. Say you have a web browser and three terminal windows; when you Alt-Tab from the browser, only one of the terminals appears in the list. And when you switch to it, all of the open terminals gain focus. I often run into that exact problem with OSX. That is partially why I'm considering trying out Xmonad.

As a developer and 6 year ubuntu user I appreciate the innovation attempt in unity, gnome3 and kde4...I hope they mature soon.. Still prefer, gnome 2, and long for more bug free, performing, fast updates...

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

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Post by keithpeter »

fhars wrote: 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?

Others have made suggestions before me.

I just moved the PC to Debian Squeeze as the package management methodology is familiar. Gnome 2 supported for another 18 months or so (perhaps longer depending on the time it takes for the testing version to become the new stable). I suppose it depends on the versions of the software you need access to.

I also moved to a tiling window manager, dwm, prompted by the need to purchase a new monitor and getting a largish widescreen one. The 'stack' of windows runs down the right hand side, the 'main' window is on the left. I've set the split to 60/40. There are 9 tags (aka workspaces) and hibernate to disk works well, so I have stable window layouts that work for weeks...

Xubuntu is fine on the netbook, students can understand the one panel at the bottom.

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

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Post by keithpeter »

andyking wrote: post #21
fhars wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

I use 10.04 LTS on work machines (by which I mean, machines at my workplace) simply because things stay the same on it and I'm not going to get calls saying "this huge colourful bar has appeared on the left of my screen, what on earth is it, and furthermore where on earth is my Thunderbird menu bar?". We have a lot of older users who are not especially computer-literate, so an interface that doesn't change is valuabl…

A desktop based on Cent OS or Scientific Linux springs to mind. Support measured in semi-decades... should see your hardware (and possibly users) out.

Now, Sir, Just what do you call 'older'?

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

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Post by sciurus »

s8qnze982y wrote: post #29

I'm really looking forward to new Ubuntu releases... NOT. As a matter of fact, Ubuntu's getting so much buggier and buggier with each release, that I'm just downgrading from Natty to Maverick. What a huge disappointment.

You might want to consider Debian.
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