11.04

Jared Norris jrnorris at gmail.com
Sat Apr 9 01:21:59 UTC 2011


On 9 April 2011 11:04, Paul Gear <paul at libertysys.com.au> wrote:
> On 08/04/11 12:01, Daniel Jitnah wrote:
>
> ...
> I am back to using 11.04 with Gnome and I think it is great.  Yes I think
> there will be a lot of disatisfied
> users.  But they will always be able to go back to Gnome.  But 11.10 will be
> the issue when Gnome will not be
> availale.
>
> If that is the case, 11.10 will probably the release where i leave Ubuntu
> for a distribution which offers more choice (in my case Debian).  I think
> this is an indicator of the difference in philosophy between Debian and
> Ubuntu.  Debian's priorities are the principles of Free Software and its
> users [1].  It seems that Ubuntu's priority is solving bug #1.  Much as i
> agree that bug #1 needs solving, and that Ubuntu must outdo Windows and Mac
> in order to win market share (although i remain sceptical about whether
> Unity will make any appreciable difference to this), my computer is a
> productivity tool for me, not for all those people who don't yet use Linux.
>
> By saying that it will drop support for my existing (working!) desktop
> environment, Canonical is showing that they're more interested in their
> future users than their current ones.  I can understand this, because i've
> never given them any money (and even when i tried i couldn't manage to do
> it), but it just seems to me that there must be a way to serve the interests
> of both sets of users without causing instability and without deprecating
> desktop environments that are suitable for more advanced users (more on
> these points at [2]).
>
> Paul
>
> [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract
> [2] http://libertysys.com.au/node/101
>
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Ubuntu-AU'ers,

First off I have to preface this with a disclaimer to say I'm still
yet to experience Unity in person myself but the reason I've come to
love Ubuntu is the usability and choice. Half the computers I run
Ubuntu on do not run gnome at all anyway and were installed without
media that even contained gnome. That being said if at any point I
wanted gnome on them I could just "apt-get install ubuntu-desktop" and
then log out of whatever I was using and into gnome. Just because
Ubuntu want to ship Unity doesn't mean I won't still run LXDE or KDE
or *insert other choice here* when it suits me better.

I must admit now I've seen this discussion on the topic I'm a bit more
curious about Unity so I might have to make some time in my life for a
VB install to play with it but I've always been one for "dulling down"
shiny things so it will be interesting to see how it goes.

Regards,

Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris



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