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> Is Ubuntu Driving Users Away? It drow me away for sure. The main reason I run Unix is the freedom it gives me to make my system the way I like it. For me Un

> Is Ubuntu Driving Users Away? It drow me away for sure. The main reason I run Unix is the freedom it gives me to make my system the way I like it. For me Unix=freedom to customize. Considering that, the direction they've took at Cannonical is absurd. With each new release it's harder and harder to customize your system. If you want to configure it you have to hack it. Today, it's easier to customize Windows than it is to customize Ubuntu. In the last few months I've played with Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Mint LXDE, Debian, OpenBSD, Arch, and ArchBang. I'm running ArchBang now and I love it! P.S. I would have stayed with OpenBSD if it had a better support for flash. Flash on Linux sucks, but on OpenBSD it blows. Other than that, I was really impressed with it, installation is fast, it runs fast, it's stable, and it's secure, but you knew that already :)

vacri 15y ago
Canonical have always said that they're aiming for a general user product, not power or niche users. There really isn't a distro for that kind of user at the moment, but there are plenty for power users.
- sasha-dv 15y ago
  I know that and I respect it. What I don't know is why are they investing so much time in making it impossible to customize Ubuntu? What it has to do with their mission? Is it impossible to build a system with good defaults so that general population can use it with no configuration requiered, and let more advanced users pimp it up the way they want it. The Unity developers had been answering questions on redit some time ago (http://gd.is/dgzY http://gd.is/dgzY) and the majority of people were complaining about it only to find out that the developers have no authority to implement some basic conf tool.
MatthewPhillips 15y ago
If you want to customize everything on your computer you want Arch. It gives you a barebones boilerplate installation and leaves everything else up to you. Did I mention Arch is awesome?

vacri 15y ago

Canonical have always said that they're aiming for a general user product, not power or niche users. There really isn't a distro for that kind of user at the moment, but there are plenty for power users.

sasha-dv 15y ago
I know that and I respect it. What I don't know is why are they investing so much time in making it impossible to customize Ubuntu? What it has to do with their mission? Is it impossible to build a system with good defaults so that general population can use it with no configuration requiered, and let more advanced users pimp it up the way they want it. The Unity developers had been answering questions on redit some time ago (http://gd.is/dgzY http://gd.is/dgzY) and the majority of people were complaining about it only to find out that the developers have no authority to implement some basic conf tool.

MatthewPhillips 15y ago

If you want to customize everything on your computer you want Arch. It gives you a barebones boilerplate installation and leaves everything else up to you. Did I mention Arch is awesome?