Ubuntu One "bragging"

[Pongo A. Pan]

On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 21:17 -0400, Douglas Saylor wrote:
> > Yes. Move to Debian or Mint.

> I hear Mint is good & quite frankly, after six months, this Ubuntu
> Unity Toolbar is REALLY annoying. Actually not the tool bar, but any
> controls located NEAR the tool bar create the problem ...I'm
> overshooting those controls, toolbar pops-up, move away, wait for
> toolbar to go away, repeat. Oy! The back arrow on any internet
> browser, the "X" button to close a window. /sigh
> 
The cure for that is to use the Compiz Settings Manager, General Options
section and set "edge trigger delay" to some fairly large value,
something more than 2000 ms.  This keeps the tool bar from launching
everytime you hit the left edge of the screen briefly.

Mint is very good, and we've pretty much standardized on it here for
people we don't want bothering us with "how do I?" questions. It really
does "just work" and it looks good too. The problem is that it too will
have to adapt to the new world where Gnome 2.x isn't maintained anymore
and Gnome 3 without either unity or gnome shell is pretty barren.  They
have been hinting that the next release (due some time in November) will
have a choice of Gnome 2.x and Gnome 3 with the shell.  They're
apparently talking with the MATE project that is trying to fork Gnome 2
as well.  Mint is a pretty small operation (almost a one-man-band) so
I'm not all that optimistic about it.

LMDE is a creature of Debian and will pretty much have to go the way
Debian goes.  I've found LMDE to be a bit rough around the edges and
missed the super-fast Ubuntu repositories when I used it over the
summer.