Oh, please, please, COME ON Ubuntu development people!

[Liam Proven]

On 21 April 2011 00:45, chris <chevhq at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 23:19 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 16 April 2011 20:52, chris <chevhq at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Don't you think it would be nice to move this to sounder.  I am having
>> > trouble getting my wheelchair over here.
>> >  Picks up ear trumpet and waves peevishly at nurse aid to push in
>> > required direction..............  mumbling about his first z80 processor
>>
>> We can't. The Powers that Be have just shut it down.
>>
> True, which makes me wonder about the whole Ubuntu/Canonical thing.
> Fortunately as you know well, there are other distros, I am at the
> moment playing with PCLinux OS, and Denbian stable.  On my production
> machine I am switching to Mint 10.04.2 for the mean time whilst I see
> what happens with Canonical.

Indeed.

I've been looking into what Clem Lefebvre is planning for Mint 11.
Apparently, it will be based on GNOME 3, but with the traditional
panel layout - no GNOME Shell. I didn't even realise this was
possible, TBH. That certainly sounds like it will be worth a look for
those who like neither Unity nor the GNOME Shell, or whose hardware
isn't up to running them in their full composited glory.

There is also now a second Debian-based Mint, to go with LMDE, the
Linux Mint Debian Edition, which currently uses a GNOME 2-based
desktop. There is now Linux Mint Xfce 201104 as well, which like LMDE
is also based directly off Debian and not Ubuntu.

There are more options opening up for people who wish to leave Ubuntu,
Unity and GNOME 3 but keep the Debian base and the power of apt-get
and dpkg.

I'm not planning to decamp just yet myself. I'm intrigued by Unity. I
am playing with it in a VM and whereas I don't find it an obvious or
intuitive environment, I will certainly give it a try on native
hardware when it's released. I very much like Ubuntu's ease of use,
polish, integration, the ready availability of drivers and so on - all
things which it does much better than Debian. However, it seems to be
more and more apparent to me that Ubuntu is not a democracy and we
users must just take what we're given and not grumble about it.
Otherwise you'll suddenly find that your desktop has changed
radically, or your favourite mailing list is shut down. :¬(

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