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.<br clear="all">blendmaster1024<br><br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Will Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:undertakingyou@gmail.com">undertakingyou@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Christer Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christer.edwards@gmail.com" target="_blank">christer.edwards@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> </div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex"> 1) window buttons belong on the right!<br></blockquote></div><div> Aesthetic, not a big deal.<br></div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex"> 2) poop brown theme turned into "OMG Purple Ponies!1!!" theme<br></blockquote></div><div>Aesthetic, not a big deal. <br></div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex"> 3) aptitude removed to make room for who-knows-what "social" application<br></blockquote></div><div>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. <br> </div><div><br>My current complaint is the seeming attitude that release dates and following mainstream are more important that providing a usable system. Three examples,<br>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.<br> 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.<br> 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.<br> <br>Thanks for the forum to vent,<br>Will Smith--<br> <br></div></div><br> <br>--<br> ubuntu-us-ut mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-us-ut@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-us-ut@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ut" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ut</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br>