Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 767
Please don't go around holding up the worst examples of us as, well, examples of us.
Please don't go around holding up the worst examples of us as, well, examples of us.
And I am not sure that finding out you have high blood pressure, really does much in the long run except maybe prevent you from dying of a heart attack earlier.
Clearly that's something nobody should care about, I mean what... death? Peh! Hardly an inconvenience.
I'll let Brian Boyko explain it, he does a much better job of it than I could. The entire UX is fucked.
Hey, I thought I'd fit in better! You're just further proving my point.
We're talking about Ubuntu - the official Ubuntu from Canonical. Not what you linked, but what Canonical puts on UBUNTU.COM
I know all this, but I realize not everyone reading these comments does.
My core point is that when you go to Ubuntu's website and download it, the interface you see on the live CD and receive on installation (by default anyway) is Unity (or that gnome3 fallback thing) and not something else.
No. xUbuntu does. Ubuntu ships with Unity.
Unless things have changed and when you go to ubuntu.com and click download, it actually forwards you to xubuntu instead?
Eh, just install cygwin or whatever and you can do it locally without rebooting.
FIrewall time...
There's more broken with than just integration. The whole UX is fucked.
Try it again without a third-party UI and watch what happens... If you're using a third-party UI your experiences with it are no longer valid. If you're happy with it that's great, and wanting others to know about it so they can be as well is awesome, but you're enabling Microsoft to pull this kind of shit.
The only Ubuntu announcement that I would be interested in is if they decide to use MATE, Cinnamon, XFCE, or KDE for their desktop, and throw vanilla GNOME 3 and Unity in the trash.
Unlikely to happen.
Do you really think that's OK? It is not acceptable that such a thing is required to get basic functionality from your OS.
Imagine the uproar if Canonical removed everything except Unity from their repositories. Would you think that was OK? Sure, you could easily add a third-party repository (eg, getdeb) and get your goodies back, but you should not have to do that and that is the problem.
GCC: GNU Cupcake Cooker?
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
