On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:33 PM, John Meissen <[email protected]> wrote: > > [email protected] said: >> When you know how to use the HUD and Customize Appearance it works much >> better >> than most DE's and saves so much time over a menu based DE. But you can >> remove >> it using apt-get remove and just replace it with another DE such as xfce or >> kde. > >> http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/doityourself-it-guy/diy-replace-ubuntu-unity-w >> ith-a-different-desktop/742 > > > The point is that I've spent literally years getting the (default) environment > to where it's most productive for me. I want to upgrade, not start over. I > shouldn't have to throw out everything and learn a whole new paradigm because > someone thought it would be cool to throw away 30 years of user interface > design and evolution to make everything look like a tablet. > > kde/xfce/fvmw/afterstep/motif/whatever = starting over. I don't have time for > that. I'm using these systems for real work, not a media center to watch > internet videos. (and yes, I've used all those at one time or anther - they > all > had reasons why I'm NOT using them anymore) > > If I'm doing a new install, fine. I'll take what it gives me and make it the > way I like. But an upgrade shouldn't throw away what I've got and force a > major > change because someone else has a different opinion of "better". When I > upgrade my > 10.04 web/mail server is it going to throw away my sendmail setup and leave me > with a Postfix environment that I'm going to have to fix? And yes, this is a > serious question. > > When I upgraded my mythbuntu system from 10.04 -> 12.04 it didn't replace the > xfce environment with Unity. Why should it when I upgraded this system? > > That's the rant. I have others (like who made the vim maintainer god and gave > him the power to decide what colors to use? Vim supports colors, great. Leave > them the $#@ off and provide sample configs). But I found a way to (mostly) > restore my old environment by installing "gnome-session-fallback". > > My major concern now is Fusion support. I can't afford to move forward until I > know that it will run on my Mac. (I need Windows and Linux on the same laptop. > Because of filesystem issues running Linux on a Windows host doesn't work. And > I've never had a Linux laptop that worked well all the time. The Mac "just > works", and until now Windows and Linux both worked seamlessly in VMs.) >
Well said, and ditto. Now Amazon. What is a reasonable distribution for the casual user of Ubuntu? -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
