Another Veteran Ubuntu Member Is Leaving Canonical

[ldo17]

Microsoft Windows had Thumbnail support before Linux DE's had it.

Is that why I see crap like this in public repos?

[ldo17]

The day MS steps in and "buys" Canonical is getting closer.

It can join Danger, aQuantive and Nokia in that long line of successful Microsoft acquisitions...

[Geopirate]

OpenSUSE always did that better and yet people are on Ubuntu.
The reason of Ubuntu's continued popularity is far higher marketing effort.

Well Opensuse didn't do it better the last time I checked it out last year some time. Maybe I'll check it out again.

Marketing is important, so I'm not sure why you would dismiss it. You can make the best thing in the world, but if no one knows about it, how much does it really matter?

[leech]

just enable alternate-tab with gnome-tweak-tool and you got your LIVE thumb previews. And, of course, you can use the expose feature, which i personally love, to get way bigger and more detailed live previews of your windows. Just press meta and you're good to go. I personally use GNOME, MATE, lxde and xfce4 everyday and used KDE and fluxbox a lot in the past. I've got a co-worker right behind me boasting unity... I just can't suffer it, it feels way less smooth than GNOME.To each his own, i guess.

I was trying to figure out what the hell the other guy was talking about. Thumbnails.. for what? The dock? Why would you even want/need that? Hitting the Meta key and having the overview is how I always flip my tasks around, I never use Alt+tab, and the dock stays hidden and I utilize it only as a shortcut bar for the most used applications (like it's meant to be used, NOT a task switcher). I'm not sure if I like or dislike the alternat-tab extension, since you can basically show thumbnails or icons or both, and the normal one shows icons and text, which.. do you really need thumbnails that small? the expose-like thing is the way I liked switching tasks on the mac too, which is awesome that I annoyed an Apple 'Genius' because I set up a hot corner like Gnome-Shell uses!

[akincer]

I've been using Ubuntu for some time. After I got over a few initial learning curve and learned a few nifty keyboard shortcuts, I've found Unity for the most part fairly pleasant. I don't have a great number of complaints. It does what I need to and that's essentially that. There have been a few things I found VERY annoying that may well have workarounds that I gave up on. It's been a while, but it revolves around scripting a few things that apparently are not exposed on the command line.

If you want to hate Canonical or whatever fine. I personally don't see the usefulness in it. And I certainly don't find Ubuntu a distro that needs to be put out to pasture. Take that mental energy and go make another distro sufficiently better to be compelling enough to get people to switch. So far, my experimentation hasn't yielded such a distro and it's not for lack of trying although to be fair it's been a couple of years since I tried.

[labyrinth153]

I thought to myself, wow an enterprise Linux distribution that doesn't have a "free version". This might finally be what the world needs. Or not when Microsoft and Apple have better integrity than Canonical.

[aht0]

Seems like every November there's a wave of people moving jobs, maybe something about the gloomy short days in the Northern hemisphere. I've been working professionally in the software field for over 30 years, and I've seen it happen every year.

I've been told it's related to "autumn tiredness".. increased stress level because shorter and gloomy days, less vitamins in food etc. Same thing happens on early spring as well but on lesser scale.