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

[Michael Butash]

Agreed - that was one of the first things I killed:

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-gtk appmenu-qt

Just reverse that to put it back if you really miss the stupid mac-like 
behavior.  Biggest reason for me to be rid of it is I can't spawn unity 
menus on each framebuffer set, so nothing on my second monitor set had 
menus...  Brilliant!

This was a good find for making oneiric suck less:

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/things-to-tweak-after-installing-ubuntu.html

-mb


On 12/01/2011 11:34 AM, Ariel Gold wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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