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I love Ubuntu 12.04. Remarkable well thought user experience. 6 months back, I switched completely to Ubuntu 12.04 and is my primary machine now. I'm blown awa
by pajju 14y ago
I love Ubuntu 12.04. Remarkable well thought user experience.
6 months back, I switched completely to Ubuntu 12.04 and is my primary machine now. I'm blown away with their agile methodologies and love every small part of the web-integration + the Ubuntu software market.
Ubuntu Desktop is strongly emerging as perfect web platform with tight integration with web-services. Many Developers have started writing apps for ubuntu software market.
The concept of HUD to search inside webapps and navigate complex menu's is revolutionary! Worth mentioning, webapps are now exactly like native desktop apps, recently used the Gmail webapp, it opens as separate app and we can search inside that app. (They have an API to enable such HUD controls for any webapp). The Ubuntu Software center has tons of good apps and they also give Free 5GB cloud storage.
I'm blown away with all the features, and its worth being part of this big change.
One feature I wished to have - a seamless OS upgrade like iOS.
- jiggy2011 14y agoI have to say I haven't found myself using the HUD very much. When I am learning an app I usually want to have discoverability so I will search the menus looking for the stuff I need. Once I am more versed in using it I just memorize the keyboard shortcuts. Not to mention that for some apps (mainly Java etc) HUD doesn't really work at all. Not seeing much in the software centre either.
- pajju 14y agoHUD is perfect for the power users, adds a lot to productivity. Here is the HUD demo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_WW-DHqR3c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_WW-DHqR3c HUD for power users - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK2lMCMsios http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK2lMCMsios
- jiggy2011 14y agoAll of this stuff is faster with keyboard shortcuts, unless it's stuff that you only use very occasionally in which case there would be only a negligible benefit. The algorithm is also based only on text matching (presumably levenshtein distance) so typing "exit" isn't helpful if the application happens to use the word "quit". HUD would be incredible if it was as clever as Siri at NLP and could search every app installed on my system at once. So I could say stuff like "Set an alarm for 10 minutes time" or "email richard"
- StavrosK 14y ago> One feature I wished to have - a seamless OS upgrade like iOS. What's wrong with the current OS upgrade process?
- Adrock 14y agoIt has seams for a lot of people. Personally, every upgrade I've done has resulted in a broken system. I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary. Half the time I'm left with a system that won't even boot and I have to do a fresh install.
- StavrosK 14y agoWow, that's odd. My desktop has been running the same installation since 10.04 or so and all the upgrades worked fine (apart from minor gnome-shell toolbar breakage).
- josephlord 14y agoI've had Ubuntu upgrades go pretty smoothly so far. I would like it if you could run an upgrade process to switch to a 64bit install though. It seems at the moment as if a reinstall is required (or major hacking).
- jyap 14y agoIf you've initially installed a 32-bit OS and you expect a seamless upgrade to a 64-bit OS then it's honestly a use case that shouldn't be looked at or have resources devoted to solving.
- josephlord 14y agoYou might be right but I'm not the only person that wants to do it. A few years ago the recommendation (on the Ubuntu site) was to install the 32bit version but now the stability and performance gains of 64bit builds make the trade off different. The box doubles as my home MythTV box (with uptime requirements to keep my family happy) and general home server including running as a test server.