On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 19:10 -0500, Roy wrote: > What saddens me more than all of the above is the decision to switch > to Plymouth from usplash and this affects me and many others in a big > way. Most users are not aware of the problem, but I run both Kubuntu > and Fedora and I know first hand. I have an Nvidia 3D card and with > Plymouth you cannot run proprietary Nvidia drivers because Plymouth > uses KMS and Nvidia drivers do not support kernel mode setting. That > means that I must use Nouveau and be stuck with a 2D card in Fedora. > Guess what? Canonical plans on using the same Nouveau driver. > Actually They are going with xsplash which is far, far, far superior to usplash in oh so many ways. I never cared for usplash ever, but xsplash allows me to create my own startup splash screens. They will be dropping usplash entirely with Lucid and I couldn't be happier with that decision.
As far as the Mono thing goes Ubuntu has always used it and though I am not thrilled with it (easy enough to get rid of sudo apt-get remove --purge mono) there is a lot more that I do like. Karmic isn't the best of the Ubuntu series but it is heading in a good direction overall. The decision to remove the GIMP in the default really makes a lot of sense in the long run. I have never used F-Spot myself but its a very popular program so it must have some good qualities to it. Its only a basic photo editor and for most end users that's good enough. GIMP is for, and designed to be used by, the professional graphics editor, artist and designers, it was never meant for the average user. I didn't even start using it until I learned how to do graphics better because it was so powerful. I stayed with the simpler tools until I understood graphic editing a lot better before I really got into using GIMP and I'm still learning. You may not understand the decision but Canonical is looking to develop a desktop edition that can take on Mac and Windows and eventually win. Hmm more user friendly apps make sense in that regard. As a power user I have no issue with the decision, simply because as a customer service person I completely understand why. It isn't about the Linux users whom know what they're doing, its about reaching out to new users and making Ubuntu friendly and comfortable. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
