Well, it was fun while it lasted...

Bryan Pizzuti bpizzuti at optonline.net
Sun Nov 7 22:57:35 UTC 2004


(Back on Windows for now) Sure.  Trying to add anything to the subfolders of
the Applications menus doesn't work, even as root (which I enabled).  The
launchers simply fail to be created, no matter what user I use (And there
seems to be no other way to edit the menus in GNOME).

Secondly, NONE of the news clients work...tried them all.  This might not be
an Ubuntu problem, since they're also not working in Debian Sarge, which
Ubuntu is based off of. I'm currently working to figure out if a non-Debian
based distro will have the same problem for me or not (Since MandrakeMove
isn't working right under VMWare, I might have to install Slack or Mandrake
under VM)...if so I have to have a chat with my ISP. But there doesn't
appear to be anything interfering with the connection on the machine or my
network up to my WAN interface, and my Windows box isn't having any trouble
retriving newsgroups, so it's not like the server was down or the port was
blocked on my router.  

I found a possible fix for Quicken on Crossover Office/WINE so that might
not be too much of a problem.  But I've also discovered that KDE has MUCH
more (and more granular) support for variable power states needed for
something like a laptop, and without having to resort to scripting.
Comparitively, GNOME is a bit deficient in this area, even though it has a
better display manager and beter and more options for "task tray" applets
and icons (MUCH better than KDE, come to think of it...I wish they'd all
just work in both). GNOME is also a cleaner interface....I have to "dumb
down" KDE before I can stand to use it. ;)

So basically, even if I stick with Ubuntu on the Thinkpad (I haven't
re-formatted it yet) I'm going to end up pretty much using KDE on it...which
kind of defeats he whole purpose of using Ubuntu, doesn't it?  No
distribution is perfect...if there was one such distribution, then the rest
of them wouldn't exist, right?  I keep about 5 different Linuxes around to
recommend to people for desktop use, and Ubuntu made the short list (SUSE
and Xandros for those wanting a commercial distro; MEPIS, Knoppix and Ubuntu
for the free ones...Ubuntu displaced Mandrake, and I previously mentioned
some problems with MEPIS).  Incidentally, Debian DIDN'T, nor would I
recommend Slack to a client, since they're just to difficult for anything
but a power user, but that's me, an admin type, versus my clients, who are
point-n-click user types for the most part. 

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Matvei
Kliuchnikov
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 3:59 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Well, it was fun while it lasted...

On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 03:27:00 -0500, Bryan Pizzuti <bpizzuti at optonline.net>
wrote:
> It was fun working with you guys; Ubuntu is a good distro, and still 
> one I'd recommend to my clients and friends.  I just can't get it to 
> do everything I'm looking for
> 

Care to post further details about your specific problems? Perhaps with a
little work you might actually use the distro you're recommending to others
...


--
M.E. Kliuchnikov

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