[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Direction

David King linuxman at avoura.com
Tue Sep 14 23:06:26 BST 2010


I never knew about the existing CTRL ALT d key combo, thanks! (still on 
Ubuntu 9.04)


David King



Daniel Case wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have just tried the 10.10 Beta and here are my thoughts.
>
> Is it just me, or does anyone else think Ubuntu is losing its 
> direction from its initial philosophy? I have seen it happen all too 
> often with company-owned software, first it will be open source, then 
> it will have some closed source stuff (which Ubuntu now gives you 
> option to install at the install screen - despite it being closed source)
>
> There is also now a paid software section in the Ubuntu Software 
> Center and finally...a tiny one, but the one that really annoyed me, 
> the fact that ctrl+alt+d no longer takes you the desktop as it does in 
> every other distribution and did since Ubuntu was first thought of, it 
> is now "WINDOWS+d".
>
> Just my 2p (since its UK ;))
>
> Daniel



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