[ale] I really incredibly exponentially hate ubuntu unity

[Pablo Ordonez]

I use Ubuntu as my main work tool. I try to make my life as simple as I
can, so 99% of my work time is shared among emacs, a terminal, and a
browser(chromium). I do not use Unity that much; however, I find HUD very
clever and useful to find shortcuts in the different modes in emacs. I know
that my work can be done by any distribution, so why I use Ubuntu?

Because they are very clear about what they want. They are trying to reach
the desktop, laptop market,  and they NAME PUBLICLY  who are the
Monopolistic contenders.

Today I bought a decent laptop at http://www.avadirect.com  without
paying Microsoft tax.  That happened no because of slack, mint, fedora
etc.. ( although they can install those distributions).

I do not (super_hyper_ultra)-hate Red Hat, Fedora, Slack. I guess, they
are wonderful distributions and I'm glad some people enjoy them.  I think
this kind of threads does not help to Linux or Linux community. Pls code
more and talk less to improve your favorite distribution.

Pablo :)



On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/15/2012 11:10 PM, rhia wrote:
> > I like top post Tuesday as well.
> > And I really like Enlightenment as well, too.
> > Ron, I feel your pain, which is why Ubuntu et al annoy me almost, but
> > not quite, as much as the abomination from Redmond.
> > I ran Slackware with a hybridized bastardized gnome/KDE/Enlightenment
> > desktop setup for years and then switched over to Gentoo with a
> > hybridized bastardized gnome/KDE/Enlightenment desktop setup.
> > Yes, it took a while to work the bugs out.
> > No, it's not something I would install on my parents' systems.
> > However; once tweaked, and fiddled with, and tweaked some more, I have a
> > system (and backup configs) that suits me and I can transport to new
> > hardware or reinstall whenever needed. To me, that ability (to
> > customize, tweak, fiddle with, etc) is why I prefer running the much
> > more finicky? persnickety? Gentoo on my own systems. (Sadly, it's also
> > why I dislike the Windows/Apple wannabes, but that might well start a
> > distro war I'm not wanting to battle here and now.)
> >
> > ----
> > rhia
> IMHO, the advantage of Linux is one word: choice. If you do not like the
> default you can install and tweak so that you have a system that suits
> your needs. You can hate a DE but you can change it, often fairly
> easily. Try this with M$ or Apple, you can only do the tweaks they allow.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 16:00 -0400, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> >> It's top post Tuesday....
> >>
> >> Enlightenment.  Build it from source.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 05/15/2012 01:34 PM, Sparr wrote:
> >>> The exceptionally premature adoption of kde 4.1 by most distros is what
> >>> drove me to convert from kde to gnome a few years ago. Unity has driven
> >>> me back to kde and I'm almost as happy with the latest kde as I was
> >>> prior to 4.0
> >>>
> >>> On May 15, 2012 1:16 PM, "William Bagwell"<rb211 at tds.net
> >>> <mailto:rb211 at tds.net>>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>>      On Tuesday 15 May 2012, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> >>>       >snip (21 point rant)
> >>>       >  Any help and advice is appreciated.
> >>>
> >>>      Can offer nothing more than condolances. What you so eloquently
> describe
> >>>      mirrors my brief experience with KDE 4.X and explains why I am
> still
> >>>      using a *four year old* distro as my daily desktop.
> >>>
> >>>      Waiting for some kind soul to port Trinity to Mandriva so I can
> >>>      upgrade...
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