"My first 48 hours enduring Ubuntu"

[Arjan Geven]

On 6/14/05, Chanchao <custom at freenet.de> wrote:
> 
> This is a couple of months old so I'm sure many of you will have read
> it or know about it, but as Ubuntu is obviously getting so many new
> users all the time (including myself) you may not have seen this
> before:
> 
> It's quite brilliant..  It's a list of flaws, but nearly ALL of them
> are in the category that any programmer would label 'trivial', doesn't
> even qualify as a bug or flaw.
> 
> Yet all of them together do show a pattern.. It's quite an enjoyable
> read, seeing how he gets completely anal about every dot and comma.
> 
> I don't agree with (or care about) many of the issues raised, but he
> definitely has a point, and you can tell he knows a thing or two about
> GUI design.. :) Article has a brilliant ending to it too.
> 
> http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2005/04/11/ubuntu
> 
> Cheers,
> Chanchao
> 
Hey Chanchao,

I also read it a few days ago, and it's a quite interesting read. I do
agree with most points he mentions, and it would be great if
developers take it into serious consideration. Especially -because- it
are more or less trivial things, it's the small things that matter
:-).

"The login screen uses the term "reboot". (My shoes are fine as they
are, thanks.)"

Ciao,
Arjan