I would much appreciate to be warned...

[Liam Proven]

On 13 March 2012 19:25, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/13/2012 02:49 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
>
>> I am expecting possibly quite a lot more users to desert to Xubuntu
>> when Precise comes out. It's about the closest you can get to a GNOME
>> 2 experience on Ubuntu any more.
>
> I wouldn't call it "desertion", as Ubuntu is still underneath it all, it's
> merely a change of a desktop for convenience sake.

True. It increases the fragmentation of the Ubuntu & indeed Linux
ecosystem, though, and that's bad. It will mean less testing, less
polish, more bugs and gotchas.

> If Ubuntu wishes to gear
> itself up for what Deep Thought thinks is going to be the wave of the
> future, sobeit. Thanks to the overall scheme of things, we get to choose. I
> think that is a far better deal than the Windows crowd gets. By far!

Definitely so!

> Myself thinks that they can do any darn thing that they want to do, as long
> as I get to do the same. Life is good and I get it all for free. Nothing
> better than that.

I'll drink to that.

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