Switched off Ubuntu

[Kevin Fries]

I'm with you Paul.   I have been feeling less and less in control of my
desktop o er the past few years.   If I wanted to be told what was "good"
for me why would I not be using Windows or Mac?   Lately I have been using
Arch and begun remembering why it was I liked Linux to start with.   I
think I found a new "distro-home"  at least for a little while.

Kevin
On Jul 30, 2013 11:29 AM, "Paul Mooring" <paul at opscode.com> wrote:

>  In my case Unity was more like the straw that broke the camel's back.  I
> don't particularly care for any of the changes Ubuntu made and have never
> liked debian packaging.  I could maybe put up with upstart or unity or the
> frequent broken upgrade cycle on their own, but once unity launched and it
> was one more thing to hack around I had reached the point of wanting to
> just find greener pastures.
>
>  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.
>
>
>  Paul Mooring
> Operations Engineer
> www.opscode.com
>
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 30, 2013 9:26 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: @@@ Pre-order your UBUNTU EDGE convergence phone today :)
> @@@
>
>  I find it weird that people will drop a distribution because of unit. I
> dislike it, but it is so easy to flip to Gnome, KDE, XFCE, TWM, whatever
> that the overall hardware compatibility i get with an Ubuntu install
> combined with the ease of use apt management system and the huge supply of
> goodies in the repo far outweigh unity. besides, I'm pretty sure the
> default desktop experience will be configurable because Linux is cool like
> that.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Paul Mooring <paul at opscode.com> wrote:
>
>> I think that's how a lot of people feel, I disliked unity enough to
>> finally switch distros and haven't looked back since.  That being said, if
>> canonical can actually deliver on the dream of dropping my phone into a
>> dock and having a full Linux desktop and then just pulling it out and
>> taking it with me when I'm done, I'll put up with Unity without any
>> complaints at all.
>> --
>> Paul Mooring
>> Operations Engineer
>>
>> www.opscode.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/29/13 6:17 PM, "Michael Butash" <michael at butash.net> wrote:
>>
>> >I agree, I bought in on one - I really hope they come though.  I'm super
>> >stoked for this...
>> >
>> >I've tried with android phones running linux atop their kernel, but ui
>> >is always a bit clunky/unusable (unity just simply never worked).  I'm
>> >keen to see just how functional they or I can make the desktop
>> >experience, as normally first thing I do is disable unity with ubuntu.
>> >
>> >Need a local hackfest if/when these come through.
>> >
>> >-mb
>> >
>> >
>> >On 07/26/2013 11:18 AM, Paul Mooring wrote:
>> >> Keep in mind what they are shooting for is convergence, a multi-core
>> >> processor with 4GB(+?) of RAM that acts as the "brain" of your desktop
>> >> computer.  At $725 people would call this a steal as an ultra-light
>> >> laptop, combine that with a carrier like T-mobile that allows you to
>> not
>> >> pay for a phone if you don't get one and that's a whole lot of value
>> for
>> >> less than $1k.
>> >> --
>> >> Paul Mooring
>> >> Operations Engineer
>> >>
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> Stephen
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