[Fwd: Re: Two rather negative articles about Ubuntu]

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 08:41 -0400, Peter Whittaker wrote:
> It's not a problem, but if you do it, make sure you undo it, before
you
> do anything important.
> 
> How is that not a problem?

I phrased inexactly: I should have said it does not cause problems as
such. I.e., install dapper, remove ubuntu-desktop, be happy until
support is over.

You exaggerate if you say, "before you do anything important". Dunno
about you, but I don't user computers for the sake of upgrading them.
Everything of these things I can do without Ubuntu desktop

> To me, the uninstallability of ubuntu-desktop
> seems a huge usability problem. A bug, in other words.

I never disagreed. See some reply I made about my usage of the word
"bug", which was open to misinterpretation.

And it's acknowledged by Ubuntu and as someone has posted was addressed
at the Paris summit.

> being able to remove bits whose absence will later bite you
> in a tender part is, IMHO, a huge usability bug.

I think I understand what you're getting at, but as soon as my distro of
choice removes my ability to remove whatever I want (after proper
warnings), even if it thinks it will me cause problems, I guess I need
to look for another one. It's like Windows telling me I can't remove IE