Originally posted by bregma
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Another Veteran Ubuntu Member Is Leaving Canonical
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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.
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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.
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Originally posted by kirgahn View Post
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.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostOpenSUSE always did that better and yet people are on Ubuntu.
The reason of Ubuntu's continued popularity is far higher marketing effort.
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?
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Originally posted by Anvil View Post
Microsoft Windows had Thumbnail support before Linux DE's had it.
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Originally posted by Anvil View Post
Microsoft Windows had Thumbnail support before Linux DE's had it. does Unity have any Extensions like Gnome has? my guess no. so your stuck with the same old looking Unity on ur desktop all the time with each release.
http://www.datamation.com/open-sourc...u-unity-1.html
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Originally posted by Geopirate View PostI think most people who don't understand Ubuntu's continued popularity just don't understand regular desktop users. Most people do not want to drop to a command line for basic tasks. This has been the case for 20 years but most people in the Linux community simply don't get it.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostSure shows how much Canonical pays if their employees can afford to leave just because they feel like it...
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