David C. wrote:
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote:
In terms of design, it's almost as big a departure from earlier versions as
OS X is from Mac OS 9. And as with my Mac experience, the transition was a
bit jarring at first, and I initially
On 12/27/2011 01:45 PM, Bernard Devlin wrote:
I was so appalled by the latest Ubuntu, I switched to Mint. Ubuntu
had become as slow as using Windows Vista. No wonder Mint has taken
off. Whilst the main charts in the link below are based on
DistroWatch (arguably a sign of what cutting-edge
I was so appalled by the latest Ubuntu, I switched to Mint. Ubuntu
had become as slow as using Windows Vista. No wonder Mint has taken
off. Whilst the main charts in the link below are based on
DistroWatch (arguably a sign of what cutting-edge linux users are up
to), the chart further down the
Bernard Devlin wrote:
I was so appalled by the latest Ubuntu, I switched to Mint. Ubuntu
had become as slow as using Windows Vista.
Is that with 11.10 or 11.04?
When I first tried 11.04 it was slow, and I wound up staying with 10.10
until 11.10 came out. But since I upgraded to 11.10 last
On 12/27/2011 10:35 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Bernard Devlin wrote:
I was so appalled by the latest Ubuntu, I switched to Mint. Ubuntu
had become as slow as using Windows Vista.
Is that with 11.10 or 11.04?
When I first tried 11.04 it was slow, and I wound up staying with
10.10 until
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Richmond wrote:
Well, I'm just about to hop on the plane for my annual visit to Britain
(which will include
dephlogisticating my parents' laptop, which was running Ubuntu 10.10,
which has gone
very sour since my Father couldn't resist clicking on
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Richard Gaskin
ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote:
In terms of design, it's almost as big a departure from earlier versions as
OS X is from Mac OS 9. And as with my Mac experience, the transition was a
bit jarring at first, and I initially complained about not
I suppose I had better start with a confession:
Having been in dependency hell for about 2 months I have installed
UBUNTU 11.10 on my main machine
and am running Unity 2D on it. If one uses Avant Window Navigator one
can very nearly avoid all the
bumf that comes along with Unity. Still fairly
Richmond-
Monday, December 26, 2011, 9:49:39 AM, you wrote:
Still fairly cheesed-off with Unity, GNOME 3 and the fact that there
has been no consideration for those who like GNOME 2 (after all, why
not just keep it in the repositiories as an option?).
I spent about two weeks with Gnome 3 on
On 12/26/2011 09:35 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Richmond-
Monday, December 26, 2011, 9:49:39 AM, you wrote:
Still fairly cheesed-off with Unity, GNOME 3 and the fact that there
has been no consideration for those who like GNOME 2 (after all, why
not just keep it in the repositiories as an
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote:
You *do* have your root and home
partitions separate, right?
I don't but I have OCD level rsync between the machines... I really
should place home in another partition, the only time I do this is with
freebsd.
--
Stay with Ubuntu for now, but install fluxbox and see if it still happens.
At least you'll know if its Ubuntu or Gnome3.
Once you have got used to Fluxbox, its astonishing how little use you have
for a window manager, desktop, all that bloat. I preferr flux to openbox
mainly because the virtual
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