No such problems on arch.
One of the reasons I moved away from ubuntu was the bad Gnome-Shell
integration (only using heavy patched Gnome-Software), I can imagine is it
still as bad.


2014-03-16 20:53 GMT+01:00 Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org>:

> On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 10:43 -0700, Stuart Axon wrote:
> > I'm not convinced this is purely an ubuntu thing, I'd be willling to
> > try a different one if there is a live cd with gnome shell I will test
> > it on that too.
> > I'll try upgrading to 14.04 and see what happens too
> > [Please ignore this slight rant:]
> > I think I'm coming to the end of my patience with Ubuntu -
>
> Good, I hope MANY people loose patience with Ubuntu.  Ubuntu has done
> more damage to the idea of an Open desktop than all the Internet trolls
> combined.
>
> > My experience is thus:
> > Turn on computer
> > Login with GDM
> > Close about 8 "a system problem occurred" dialogues (not sure if that
> > is the actual text).
>
> And *THIS* does not bother you?  I see ZERO "a system problem occurred"
> dialogs.  Perhaps you could address the problem these are reporting?
> Seeing errors upon login is already a rather bad sign.
>
> > Now, from there - gnome shell is good, I like it (I don't mind other
> > people can't use my computer (they're learning though).
> > Then, often I try and play an FLV video (in a player/browser/doesn't
> > matter) - after about 2 minutes it will do the freezing thing, which I
> > can battle past and fix - funnily only for long videos, music is
> > usually OK.
>
> There is something unique to your setup occurring here, I have watched
> hours of video while running GNOME Shell.
>
> > When the computer wakes up from hibernate the fans sometimes go full
> > blast I have to turn off the computer unplug it and take the batteries
> > out, sometimes after that they are still FULL(!) - so I do it again
> > and it behaves.
>
> Can you view the computer's reported temperatures?
>
> > TL;DR:
> > I've been on gnome since before 1.0 and Ubuntu since Dapper, it is
> > such a pain I might just get a mac, which is a shame as really think
> > libre software is important and am adamantly cross platform in the
> > code I care about.
>
> Your experience is not normal.
>
>
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> Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA
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