On 02/12/11 10:59, Alan Pope wrote:
On 01/12/11 23:52, thegeeksquad...@ymail.com wrote:
Is Ubuntu going in the wrong direction?
I personally don't believe so, no. I personally think it's going in
exactly the _right_ direction, but some people seem obsessed by
yesterday, today and tomorrow and not next year or next decade.
For starters, it seems as though hordes of users -
Define "hordes".
including myself have switched over to Linux Mint and Arch in some
cases.
Yay! Enjoy Mint! Choice is great. If you personally don't like Ubuntu
you can switch to something else. I personally like Ubuntu so I'm
sticking with it :)
I've been using Ubuntu since Hardy and am sad to leave it go, but the
last two versions have been buggy beyond belief,
Got some bug numbers?
and furthermore Unity is for tablets and Netbooks, not Desktops and
laptops.
That's just not true at all. Look for example at how much Unity uses
keyboard shortcuts and how badly it works on touch devices!
The attitude of Canonical is so poor - so many users have been saying
what they want; they've ignored,
Examples?
Just because someone demands something doesn't mean a) they are right,
b) they should get what they want.
and Linux Mint has filled the hole.
Many people don't like change. If some people prefer Mint, great,
isn't it awesome that Clem is providing an alternative?
Mint 11 was perfect; Mint 12, I'm not liking Gnome 3 MSGE, regularly
crashes, but they're supporting MATE - which is the future as far as
I am concerned, along with the old Gnome 2.x as well.
Ubuntu just lags and lags and is so irresponsive. The memory leaks so
badly lately - which was the reason I made the Mint switchover that
so many are doing.
Got some bug numbers?
Not trying to start a flame war, but I loved the OLD Ubuntu, now that
Ubuntu is Mint.
Ditch Unity, change the attitude and we're onto a winner again.
Unity isn't going away. Deal with it or use something else.
Is this a sneek peek of Win8, supposedly 'tablet/mobile and desktop',
in a way I kinda hope so ;) - at least Windows will be gone.
Seriously, you only have to look at DistroWatch to count down the
days before Mint overtakes its base, as Ubuntu did with Debian.
In 2007 PCLinuxOS overtook Ubuntu. People claimed this was the end of
Ubuntu then.
Al.
And you wonder why Ubuntu is static......
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