[plug] Reinforcement for the Ubuntu fans

[Richard Meyer]

On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 21:47 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 20:50 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> > I was reading a blog of a guy who is in charge of gazillions of
> > teraflops of Linux goodness - he blogs about Linux, and he just moved
> > his desktop from FC to Ubuntu.
> > 
> > Worth reading to reinforce your prejudices.  ;-)
> > 
> > I read it, and I'm sorta tempted to try the the Eft.
> 
> Flame attraction warning:
> 
> Two BIG things I can't abide that have turned me off Ubuntu and most of
> its children:  1/ the only default desktop is gnome and gnome REALLY
> went wrong a few years ago when it decided to dumb-down all user options
> and hide them away; 2/ I've never had so few options givven to me to
> customise an install as when I gave Ubuntu a try - ie, more gnome-style
> dumbing-down, sadly.
> 
> Just my $0.05, but those are two killer issues for me that saw me try
> Ubuntu and Edubuntu and spit the dummy on them despite all the good they
> offer :-(
> 
> Gavin

apt-get install kde-desktop may have taken care of that ... :-)

.. and I agree the Gnome desktop has become silly.

But in terms of "just getting things to work", the man stands by Ubuntu
(until next week, when something better comes along).


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Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
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