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" 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 > > ------------------------------ > *From:* plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org < > plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org> on behalf of Stephen < > cryptworks@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 30, 2013 9:26 AM > *To:* Main PLUG discussion list > *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 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" 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 >> >> >> >--------------------------------------------------- >> >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> >http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >