First impressions of 11.04

[Knapp]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon at decoulon.ch>wrote:

> On Tuesday 26 April 2011 10:30:56 pm Knapp wrote:
> > I was a very happy Kubuntu user and then came the changes. Kubuntu forced
> a
> > very early kde4 on us and then proceeded to do the same thing with a
> bunch
> > of other software for no good reason that I could see, but I have stuck
> > with it. kde 4 has at last become usable. Dolphin still sucks but is
> usable
> > too, as are the rest of the changes.
> >
> > The REAL problem is that the users jumped ship like rats from a sinking
> > ship.
> (...)
>
> I don't see this as a problem: they did not accept the change, so they
> left.
> Good decision, considering that after three years you consider only KDE 4
> as "usable" while they "killed" what I consider to have been the best
> desktop
> environment ever (OS/2's workplace shell is second). This is what the
> customers must learn: their only power is in _not_ using what they don't
> want
> to use. All those who don't like KDE 4 should stop using it, same with
> Unity
> or Gnome 3. Then _maybe_ those developpers will consider changing their
> mind.
> You can get KDE 3 back on Ubuntu with Trinity.
>

Why did you consider kde 3 to be the best ever? I would bet that if you
tried kde 4 now, you might want to come back. I would modify that statement
with Kubuntu and say that you have to set up some stuff first, the defaults
are a bit off the mark.


>
> >  The keyboards days are numbered. Voice recognition that is really usable
> is
> only a few  more years off.
>
> Keyboardless computers are just like the paperless office: they will
> _never_
> get through for normal business.
>
> Yes, maybe you can use voice recognition in your room. Try that with 20
> people
> talking to their computer in an office! Even _if_ voice recognition was so
> advanced that it could reliably identify it's "owner", there would be no
> way
> to concentrate. Imagine you're writing a letter to your boss and your
> neighbour is navigating a sex site :)
>

You do have a point there.


> You'll not find many people who correct on screen, and my student print the
> pdf we give to them.


I do all my office work paperless and I program paperless. Maybe it is
because I have a nice screen set-up. I use nvidia 7600 gs with 2 monitors on
it. Kde lets me have 4 desktops on each, so I always have a place to put
something off to the side and I have the resolution to see all that I need
at one time. I currently have a 1024x768 and a 1920x1080 screen system.


> As to the cloud, who would ever have his important
> documents on the net - not only for security, what if the net is down when
> you need them? Would you put your accounting on a Microsoft or Google owned
> server?
>

I agree BUT I know off a lot of people that do that sort of stupid thing. To
many people have blind trust.


>
> i don't believe either voice or handwritiing recognition will ever make it.
> Apple tried handwriting recognition on the Newton almost 20 years ago, Palm
> tried it too, but most modern smartphones got rid of the stylus. Seems it
> tries to come back on the iPad - I predict it will fail and remain a geeky
> fun stuff.
>
> Tablets usually can be used only with one hand. Smaller devices are not
> suited
> for typing _at all_, so I bet the keyboard is here to stay...  and maybe in
> a
> few years whoever find this post will say I way completely stupid :) I take
> the risk!
>

As a Blender 3d user, I would not bet against you.



> Cheers,
>
> Thierry
>


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