Michael,
I feel your pain with respect to GNOME. It is hideous, awful, disgusting,
and all that stuff. I always preferred GNOME to KDE, but now they are both
on the same level of awfulness.
Thankfully, though, they are not the only solutions. If you like Ubuntu,
there is a distro that is based on Ubuntu called Linux Mint, and I have
moved from Fedora to Mint. I use the Cinnamon desktop, and while I like
the original GNOME better than Cinnamon, Cinnamon is a big improvement over
the new GNOME (Actually the command line is a big improvement over the new
GNOME). Go to linuxmint.com for details.
There is also LXDE, which is available at LXDE.org. That's another
alternative.
--Tom
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:08 AM, D. Michael McIntyre <
[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm writing from GMail in a web browser. I hate using a web browser
> for email, and have been using KMail for over 10 years. I love KMail.
>
> So somewhere after midnight I got the upgrade notification thing from
> my running Kubuntu 10.04 LTS that 12.04.1 was available. Interesting.
> That's the first time in years I've actually gotten one of those
> notifications.
>
> I decided to burn some hours fooling around, and give it a go. How
> much breakage could there be?
>
> The clicky link thing failed immediately with error code 1, but no
> matter. I googled it, and figured out I should run some sudo thing
> from the command line.
>
> That failed about five times in a row, with several minutes between
> each iteration, because I had a lot of trouble freeing sufficient
> space on /var, but it did eventually get me there without any
> additional issues.
>
> I was pretty impressed that it replaced several thousand packages
> without giving me the sense that anything too awful was going to get
> broken. My old installation was, well, old, and full of random little
> cruft nuggets.
>
> So that was around 0400 when it first booted, and here it is around
> 1000 by now, and I'm posting this from my shiny new GNOME Classic
> desktop. I took one look at the non-classic GNOME and could scarcely
> decipher the completely mutilated train wreck of a thing it called a
> desktop, so I tried the classic version instead, and it looks...
> Well, identical. They're both just spectacularly awful. I can't
> imagine why anybody would use this hideous piece of shit for more time
> than it took to find the logout button.
>
> Oh, and every single word I type is in red, because the language stuff
> apparently got screwed up in all this too.
>
> As for KDE? Forget about KDE. Hours of googling errors later, I
> finally gave up and installed GNOME, which is completely unusable, but
> at least it doesn't fail instantly with a cryptic error for which
> there is no solution in all of google space.
>
> There are many references to the lnusertemp thingie not working, going
> back for years and years, but not a single hint or tip contained in a
> single one of them was useful. Not unless you consider it progress
> that I graduated from an instant failure to X11 coming up in a black
> screen with an endless stream of meaningless errors on the console
> anyway.
>
> I've been doing my bit to make all of this better for 10 years now,
> and it's extremely depressing to see that everything is just as bad,
> if not worse, than it was the first time I tried Linux 11 years ago.
> This is progress? This is a completely and hopelessly broken train
> wreck.
>
> I guess I have to figure out how to use the GNOME crap to download and
> burn an ISO and do a clean install. Maybe that will work.
>
> My computer had been up for almost 18 months before I decided to try
> upgrading it. You'd think I would have learned that for every stable
> thing in Linux there are 50,000 hopeless train wrecks in between.
>
> I tire of this so-called progress.
>
>
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