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Ha...good luck. I tired switching my wife and daughters back to Windows after 8 came out. They lasted around six weeks before switching back to Ubuntu. I used i

by rufugee 14y ago

Ha...good luck. I tired switching my wife and daughters back to Windows after 8 came out. They lasted around six weeks before switching back to Ubuntu. I used it quite a bit during this time as well. The interface is so heavily designed for a tablet, it ends up feeling very forced and clunky as a desktop. Additionally, in that six week period, there were at least three times where I would reboot the machine and get the dreaded "Preparing Automatic Repair" endless loop of death, resulting in a re-install. I really loved certain things about it...well, at least the design of certain things. For example, the process monitor you accessed via ctrl+alt+delete was beautiful and had some very nice features including cumulative resource usage per app which I found very exciting. However, I quickly found that most of your running apps rarely showed in this panel. Combine this with the fact that when a process went awry and you wanted to kill it, 95% of the time the process monitor wouldn't come up at all, it was next to useless. (I'll mention here that this OS is the first Windows I've had since 98 which wouldn't give you access to kill a process even with the system under heavy load, unless it was completely frozen). Windows 8 not so bad? Maybe in your experience, but in mine, it was a stinking pile of crap. If Skyrim and certain other games would run reliably on Linux, I'd be completely done with Windows. Come to think of it, games have been the only reason I've kept Windows around for the past decade and it was the driver to give 8 another shot (so my daughter wouldn't have to reboot to get to a few of her favorite games). I suspect various games and Office will keep a lot of folks on the platform, but there are MUCH better experiences to be had. I've tried various Windows, OS X, and various *nixs, and Linux just seems to suit my family (and me personally) the best. I couldn't say this five years ago (at least for my wife and kids), but I'm happy that I can now.

laureny 14y ago
> (I'll mention here that this OS is the first Windows I've had since 98 which wouldn't give you access to kill a process even with the system under heavy load, unless it was completely frozen). It's because you're using the wrong shortcut, it's Ctrl-Shift-ESC. Ctrl-Alt-Delete takes you to a more general screen that's not always available.
- ameen 14y ago
  Woah. I'd never heard of this shortcut, seems to work perfectly. Now to see if it still does work when my PC is frozen. Thanks for the tip, though.
hexonexxon 14y ago
Ubuntu for desktop is most likely going to disappear. Seems they are moving to tablets and android clones. As for gaming they are now starting to release linux versions, well at least Steam and Blizzard are.
- w1ntermute 14y ago
  As long as you have the ability to install other DEs, like Xfce, "Ubuntu for desktop" will never disappear. That's the difference between Linux and locked down operating systems like Mac OS X. I've never liked Unity, but that's totally irrelevant to me. I can just keep using Xfce (or any of a dozen other WMs/DEs) with Ubuntu.
- Zigurd 14y ago
  That strikes me as an odd prediction. PCs are disappearing because most people who use them don't actually need them. They don't need a truly general purpose personally controlled computer. Linux users know they need a personal computer, for software development or some other high-value purpose. These will be the last PCs to be replaced by tablets and smartphones. Unless of course your position is that Ubunutu is effete and it will be the Mint and Gentoo where the Last of the PCs makes it's stand.
michaelwww 14y ago
> The interface is so heavily designed for a tablet, it ends up feeling very forced and clunky as a desktop I don't use the tablet interface as a desktop. I use the desktop interface as a desktop. > there were at least three times where I would reboot the machine and get the dreaded "Preparing Automatic Repair" endless loop of death, resulting in a re-install. Sounds like a hardware problem. I've never seen this and this is the first I'm reading of it.

by rufugee 14y ago

laureny 14y ago

> (I'll mention here that this OS is the first Windows I've had since 98 which wouldn't give you access to kill a process even with the system under heavy load, unless it was completely frozen). It's because you're using the wrong shortcut, it's Ctrl-Shift-ESC. Ctrl-Alt-Delete takes you to a more general screen that's not always available.

ameen 14y ago
Woah. I'd never heard of this shortcut, seems to work perfectly. Now to see if it still does work when my PC is frozen. Thanks for the tip, though.

hexonexxon 14y ago

Ubuntu for desktop is most likely going to disappear. Seems they are moving to tablets and android clones. As for gaming they are now starting to release linux versions, well at least Steam and Blizzard are.

w1ntermute 14y ago
As long as you have the ability to install other DEs, like Xfce, "Ubuntu for desktop" will never disappear. That's the difference between Linux and locked down operating systems like Mac OS X. I've never liked Unity, but that's totally irrelevant to me. I can just keep using Xfce (or any of a dozen other WMs/DEs) with Ubuntu.
Zigurd 14y ago
That strikes me as an odd prediction. PCs are disappearing because most people who use them don't actually need them. They don't need a truly general purpose personally controlled computer. Linux users know they need a personal computer, for software development or some other high-value purpose. These will be the last PCs to be replaced by tablets and smartphones. Unless of course your position is that Ubunutu is effete and it will be the Mint and Gentoo where the Last of the PCs makes it's stand.

michaelwww 14y ago

> The interface is so heavily designed for a tablet, it ends up feeling very forced and clunky as a desktop I don't use the tablet interface as a desktop. I use the desktop interface as a desktop. > there were at least three times where I would reboot the machine and get the dreaded "Preparing Automatic Repair" endless loop of death, resulting in a re-install. Sounds like a hardware problem. I've never seen this and this is the first I'm reading of it.