[ubuntu-us-ut] Airing of grievances (was Meerkat Ditching 'aptitude')

Christian Horne blendmaster1024 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 12 22:43:59 BST 2010


personally, I still use ubuntu, but I always install with the minimal
(netinstall) cd, because I can chuck all the crap I don't want and get all
the crap I do.
blendmaster1024



On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Will Smith <undertakingyou at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Christer Edwards <
> christer.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 1) window buttons belong on the right!
>>
>  Aesthetic, not a big deal.
>
>> 2) poop brown theme turned into "OMG Purple Ponies!1!!" theme
>>
> Aesthetic, not a big deal.
>
>> 3) aptitude removed to make room for who-knows-what "social" application
>>
> Stupid move, but in line with their goals, I guess. I agree that aptitude
> is better than apt-get (although apt-get follows wild cards), but I also
> think that vim should always be the default editor. I still have to install
> vim, aptitude is just one more thing.
>
> My current complaint is the seeming attitude that release dates and
> following mainstream are more important that providing a usable system.
> Three examples,
> When 10.04 first come out no ati drivers at all. Even the FOSS alternatives
> wouldn't work. The forum and bug report all seemed to say the same thing. To
> bad, big bummer, so sad, oh well. It was a couple of months before this
> would work.
> Even now on the live CD on certain systems it comes to a login screen.
> There is no password that will allow login. The bug reports for this seem to
> go unanswered and unresolved. This is beyond annoying when you consider
> giving a CD to a friend and he can't use the system. This bug is even
> present in the 10.04.1 live CD. Apparently Long Term Support means it will
> take a long time to fix anything.
> Lastly, some of the changes made seem to stifle normal computer use. Take
> notifications for example. It used to but that notifications would pop up
> along the right side of the screen. Each notification, about an inch tall,
> would tile down the screen. Four notifications at once took up about four
> and a half inches, and would pass based upon timeout. Now, with the changes
> made by ubuntu you have the option of two notifications. The first, system
> notifications like network changes, updates available, etc. The second, just
> below it, for other notifications. Song track changing, someone talking to
> you in chat. These must wait in order to be displayed. If you have four
> non-system notifications only one shows at a time. In addition, you can not
> change how long they do display. You are stuck. Such a change removes
> usability and actually makes the system less usable.
>
> Thanks for the forum to vent,
> Will Smith--
>
>
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