Ubuntu Linux losing popularity fast. New Unity interface to blame? | Royal Pingdom

[Ariel Gold]

I just started using 11.10 and Unity and the only thing I find annoying is
hiding the File, Edit, etc menu and minimize, close buttons until you hover
over them....and that I needed to know ctrl-alt-t opens a terminal...


On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> Correct, though those came long after it'd already nauseated me the first
> time.  When I needed to compile everything I needed anyways, slack was a
> much better option - in 1999.
>
> Fast forward to 2007, the last time I purposely had to deal with RHEL, my
> experiences were not all that dissimilar.  Much of the software I use is of
> a network monitoring nature (snmp, perl, pgsql), and for better or worse a
> lot of dependencies that simply didn't exist in repos.  I ended up having
> to compile a lot of things, and still fell into weird linking errors to
> things that were simply never an issue in ubuntu whether I had to roll my
> own or not.  It was just as cranky as it was 7 years prior.
>
> Perhaps I'm a bit grizzled and stubborn, but I really don't get why I or
> my companies should use RH or its ilk.  It's always felt... solaris-ish -
> day late, dollar short.  With ubuntu on the poop list these days too, I
> need to rediscover new/old options so maybe I'll see what the rpm loving
> world has to offer these days.
>
> -mb
>
>
>
> On 11/30/2011 11:47 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>
>> On 11/30/2011 05:05 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
>>
>>> I've used every version of ubuntu since 6.04 on the desktop (and
>>> extensive server) full-time, and while it's always been a bit cranky, it
>>> was always the most together and solid linux. Packaging was simply never
>>> a problem, nor were dependencies (ahem, redhat and spawn).
>>>
>>
>> Ahem. 1995 called, they want their FUD back. Package dependencies has
>> not been a problem since up2date first, and now yum.
>>
>> TC
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