Switched off Ubuntu

[JD Austin]

Yes I know... I HATE IT.  Every time my mouse hits the edge my desktop
flies away.  It only makes sense if you're using a touch screen device AND
I'M NOT.  So.. bye bye gnome/unity/etc.. hello Cinnamon/KDE.


-- JD Austin
Voice: 480.269.4335 (480 2MY Geek)
jd at twingeckos.com



On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Ed <plug at 0x1b.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:52 AM, JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Paul Mooring <paul at opscode.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> That being said, you're right just switching distros for the desktop
> >> environment wouldn't make a whole lot of since, but things like apt (and
> >> it's overly opinionated packages) and upstart are too integral to the
> OS to
> >> make using alternatives not a huge pain.
> >
> >
> > I remember when I first switched from Slackware (everything complied from
> > source) to Redhat... all of their changes infuriated me; especially
> changes
> > to the boot process which resulted in a machine that wouldn't boot when I
> > rebuilt the kernel the 'Slackware way'.  I eventually got used to
> Redhat's
> > way and have a love hate relationship with RPM/yum.  I used Debian for a
> > long time too and liked apt-get over yum for a long time.  Ubuntu's
> changes
> > are about as annoying to me as Redhat's were.  Apt-get/yum are about
> > equivalent and both can get you into dependency hell but they work for
> the
> > most part.
> >
> > I haven't liked the changes in Fedora with Gnome lately either...
> switched
> > my desktop to cinnamon instead.  I want my start menu and virtual
> > desktops... I don't want a desktop that wants to be a tablet.
> >
> > JD
> >
> >
> > -- JD Austin
> > Voice: 480.269.4335 (480 2MY Geek)
> > jd at twingeckos.com
> >
>
> Hi JD - Fedora/Gnome3 has virtual desktops - wheel-o-fortune style.
> The menus just got their own desktop (The Activities Overview), they
> didn't go away. That said, the " ready for touch" parts of Gnome3 can
> be a PITA when mousing around, and the devs are definitely driving
> their own magic bus - but, if you hang in there you might notice how
> the whole desktop experience is compressed and your apps forced into
> the foreground.
>
> This really starts once you get the keyboard commands into muscle
> memory. One thing I did notice was a definite loss of overall,
> multi-Vdesktop context until I realized it was right there on The
> Activities Overview - that was right after I began launching apps via
> search. Press the meta/windows key, start to spell your app or it's
> function and it is there in your search results - if you did this
> before, it learns and sorts your app as the first one - just hit enter
> -> you and it open on a new  virtual desktop (or you can direct it to
> open on a specific one if you wish) ready to go.  meta,c,h,enter  and
> chromium opens
>
> After some immersion therapy, as desktops go, Gnome3 really gets out
> of your way - almost as nice as i3
>
> Happy Hunting - Ed
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