Similar Experience/Forget Hardy

[Brian Astill]

FWIW I have problems with Hardy, though I'm not sure they are of 
the same type as the original poster might have described.

My issue is with an increasing development towards the "nanny" 
approach made famous by a certain organisation based in Redmond.
"Just do it my way, dear.  There now, isn't that better? Good 
boy!" (or girl, if you prefer).

We had  lengthy - and repeated - discussions early on about sudo 
vs a root account.  The choice of sudo always seemed odd to me.

Later versions have introduced UUID instead of /dev/hdx for 
reasons which are  obscure.  In Hardy, fstab exists but editing 
is ignored.  I installed Hardy and as it seemed to be running OK 
edited fstab to have /home in my home partition.  Hardy ignored 
my change and refused to recognise anything other than its own 
setup.

I also notice the gradual removal of some OS features such 
as "root terminal" and the option of setting up a root terminal 
in Konsole.  

Has everyone noticed that nearly all the apps listed in (eg) 
Synaptic are 'ubuntuised' and wondered why? All in all there 
seems to me to be too much fiddling going on. 

I used to use FreeBSD so maybe a switch to Gentoo would be 
sensible. 

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Regards,
Brian