A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by dEnigma » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 1:07 PM UTC

A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
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Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by tambre » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 1:39 PM UTC

Still no option to disable mouse acceleration? Come on! Default Gnome has had an option for it for multiple years already.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by willvarfar » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 1:40 PM UTC

The technical audience who actually use Linux desktops want more customization not less, and the crowd that Ubuntu seems to be chasing doesn't seem to actually exist?

Hmm this doesn't make me want to leave xubuntu any time soon, although I too have noticed the recent xfce issues mentioned in the article.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by severine » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 1:41 PM UTC

Any Xubuntu review out there? Fingers crossed...

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by gregknicholson » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 1:41 PM UTC

tambre wrote: post #2

Still no option to disable mouse acceleration? Come on! Default Gnome has had an option for it for multiple years already.

Ubuntu uses Gnome now. This option exists in the Tweaks app.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by rhinoceraptor » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 1:41 PM UTC

There's a setting in gnome tweak tool to have workspaces affect both monitors instead of the default, which is just the primary monitor.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by blfr » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 1:48 PM UTC

willvarfar wrote: post #3

The technical audience who actually use Linux desktops want more customization not less, and the crowd that Ubuntu seems to be chasing doesn't seem to actually exist? Hmm this doesn't make me want to leave xubuntu any time soon, although I too have noticed the recent xfce issues mentioned in the article.

As a member of the technical audience who actually uses Linux (Ubuntu), I want almost no customization. I want sane and tested defaults, not a bunch of knobs to adjust things.

I mourn the loss of the Unity Desktop which was virtually perfect OOTB. It had a great management of the screen space, especially on laptops, it was pretty, and it worked. I wouldn't even change the desktop background.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by TekMol » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 1:51 PM UTC

Ubuntu is dead for me since the release where they were sending the data you typed in the internal search across the internet. And Shuttleworth claimed it's not a big deal.

Since then, I'm a happy Linux Mint user.

And since we are talking about Linux distros: I tried a bunch of times to live with a distro that has no start bar at the bottom. Even after a few weeks my productivity does not recover. It's a mistery to me how you can live without it. I happily stick with the Mate desktop which has it.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by Thaxll » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 1:52 PM UTC

TekMol wrote: post #8

Ubuntu is dead for me since the release where they were sending the data you typed in the internal search across the internet. And Shuttleworth claimed it's not a big deal. Since then, I'm a happy Linux Mint user. And since we are talking about Linux distros: I tried a bunch of times to live with a distro that has no start bar at the bottom. Even after a few weeks my productivity does not recover. It's a mistery to m…

Mint the distro with shity security model right? You better stay with Ubuntu / Debian they know what they're doing on that side.

Re: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

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Post by DataWorker » Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 1:53 PM UTC

blfr wrote: post #7

willvarfar wrote: post #3

The technical audience who actually use Linux desktops want more customization not less, and the crowd that Ubuntu seems to be chasing doesn't seem to actually exist? Hmm this doesn't make me want to leave xubuntu any time soon, although I too have noticed the recent xfce issues mentioned in the article.

As a member of the technical audience who actually uses Linux (Ubuntu), I want almost no customization. I want sane and tested defaults, not a bunch of knobs to adjust things. I mourn the loss of the Unity Desktop which was virtually perfect OOTB. It had a great management of the screen space, especially on laptops, it was pretty, and it worked. I wouldn't even change the desktop background.

And the integration with Amazon was underrated. It’s nice to search your files and always see some great product promotions without having to adjust knobs as you aptly put it.