Jesus! I hate 11.04, WTF happened? This is awful. Somebody's head should be smacked!

[Johnny Rosenberg]

Den 2011-03-06 20:15:18 skrev Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>:

> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net>  
> wrote:
>>
>> Similarly, if you're looking for stability on a production machine, why  
>> not
>> simply use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS? I'm an IT professional using 100%  
>> GNU/Linux for
>> the last ten years, and I wonder what it is that you're possibly  
>> looking for
>> in Ubuntu 11.04 that's not featured in 10.04 or 10.10. If you want to  
>> use
>> Unity *and* have a rock-solid system under the hood, then why not simply
>> wait until next year, until 12.04 LTS comes out? Leave the
>> alpha-and-beta-testing hassle to the developers.
>
> A CentOS user's perspective! :)
>
> Except that you're confusing a longer support period with stability.
>
> Moreover, some people like to help the developers by testing  
> alphas/betas.
>
> The current crop of alphas/betas is interesting. The OP didn't say
> what prompted his rant (regarding FF 4.0, I don't really understand
> since it isn't radically different from FF 3.6) but the new shell
> interfaces are breaking new ground:
>
> Unity's scroll bars
> http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/unity-to-get-overlay-scrollbars.html
>
> GNOME 3's shell's max-min buttons
> http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/where-did-the-buttons-go/

I haven't had any minimize- and maximize buttons for years now. I have  
used Emerald instead of Metacity for quite some time now, and it makes it  
easy to put any button where you want it, so I ended up with four buttons:  
To the left there is the Close Window button and to the right Roll Up, On  
Top and Window Menu. I maximize by double clicking the whole title bar, so  
why would I need a button for it?

Emerald seems to crash now and then though, maybe once a month or so,  
which leaves me without the title bar, but it's easily fixed from a  
terminal with ”emerald --replace &”.

> Elementary Project's alternative
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/02/elementarys-slingshot-plank-apps-just-what-are-they-and-why/
>
> And Mint's announced that it'll use GNOME 3 in its 11.04 derivative
> (as opposed to Natty's GNOME 2) and that'll not use gnome-shell.
>
> Some people might decide to give all this stuff a miss and move to
> KDE/XFCE/LXDE...

-- 
Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg