Natty 11.04 - nearly like 10.10!
Billie Walsh
bilwalsh at swbell.net
Thu Jun 23 14:17:14 UTC 2011
On 06/23/2011 07:17 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 23/06/11 22:10, Billie Walsh wrote:
>> On 06/23/2011 06:53 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>> On 23/06/11 20:09, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 15:33 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> BTW, if you want to have a few more "goodies" when running GNOME 3
>>>>> then
>>>>> have a look here:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet
>>>> Lovely link, Bas, however, 10+ years of "the same thing" is hard to
>>>> break...true?
>>> Perhaps for those people who are inflexible in their thinking and
>>> therefore have a problem with thinking outside "the square".
>>>
>>> I started off with KDE years ago because I simply HATED gnome, but
>>> then switched over to gnome only to find it being vandalised by
>>> something which calls itself Unity; so I went back to KDE (4.6) only
>>> then to find that Gnome 3 was far superior to not Unity but KDE 4.6 as
>>> well.
>>>
>>> But I have to admit that before really discovering Gnome 3 I did think
>>> that the future only lay in KDE.
>>>
>>> In a few months' time it may be something called ZIPPO which will have
>>> no icons, menus, nothing to click on, no need for a mouse or keyboard,
>>> no desktop at all in fact, nothing but a black blank screen (which
>>> will stop all this crap about video card problems) and all one has to
>>> do is to THINK what you want to do and....VOILA! the app. appears on
>>> your screen and at exactly the place you wanted it to start.
>>>
>>> "That is THE FUTURE, Brother!"
>>>
>>> (Have you listened to Leonard Cohen's. The Future, which is played at
>>> the end of the movie, Natural Born Killers?
>>>
>>> Nothing to do with Gnome 3 but it is a damn good song :-) . YouTube.)
>>>
>>> BC
>>>
>> I've said for a long time that I'm waiting on them to build a compute
>> that does what I want it to do rather than what I tell it to do. Maybe
>> that will be the one.
>
> Ah, perhaps Windows 12 with Ooonitee will be that one, eh? :-)
>
> BC
>
In my experience most issues are Eye Dee Ten Tee errors.
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