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That's not good enough. Defaults are extremely important in software, because that's the experience novice users will be stuck with permanently. It's not even

by mcbed00 13y ago

That's not good enough. Defaults are extremely important in software, because that's the experience novice users will be stuck with permanently. It's not even implemented in an intuitive or user-friendly way. When you search your computer, you don't expect Amazon search results to randomly appear. Compare the Ubuntu dash search to Spotlight on OSX, it looks very amateurish. Instead of improving it, their developers have to waste their time fudging Amazon search results in.

nrivadeneira 13y ago
You don't expect it because it doesn't occur with other OS's, but it's common functionality with web search. I'd prefer that it was off by default, but if the only price I pay for what I find to be an excellent free OS is that I have to toggle ads off, then I'm OK with that. Your opinions about the UI are subjective, of course; I find Ubuntu's search UI to be better than OSX's Spotlight. I also don't find sluggishness to be an issue at all, in fact I experience just the opposite.
- quadrangle 13y ago
  Please don't defend the Amazon shopping lens. It is indefensibly awful. Ubuntu should drop it, and it is the primary thing that makes people distrust Canonical now. Go ahead and promote all the other benefits of Ubuntu all you like, they are real.
  - chappi42 13y ago
    I hold the opposite opinion: if Amazon shopping lens supports Ubuntu providing their awesome operating system, it's very well they have it. Also I don't see a distrust point at all, hey it's a click away to disable, some commands away to uninstall. Why so particular with Ubuntu, do you e.g. distrust (and stop using) Google for displaying ads? What about Windows/OSX which are orders of magnitude less trust-able than an open source OS. If you don't like a more mainstream consumer Linux then why not install Arch or Debian or Bodhi and refrain from badmouthing?

by mcbed00 13y ago

nrivadeneira 13y ago

You don't expect it because it doesn't occur with other OS's, but it's common functionality with web search. I'd prefer that it was off by default, but if the only price I pay for what I find to be an excellent free OS is that I have to toggle ads off, then I'm OK with that. Your opinions about the UI are subjective, of course; I find Ubuntu's search UI to be better than OSX's Spotlight. I also don't find sluggishness to be an issue at all, in fact I experience just the opposite.

quadrangle 13y ago
Please don't defend the Amazon shopping lens. It is indefensibly awful. Ubuntu should drop it, and it is the primary thing that makes people distrust Canonical now. Go ahead and promote all the other benefits of Ubuntu all you like, they are real.
- chappi42 13y ago
  I hold the opposite opinion: if Amazon shopping lens supports Ubuntu providing their awesome operating system, it's very well they have it. Also I don't see a distrust point at all, hey it's a click away to disable, some commands away to uninstall. Why so particular with Ubuntu, do you e.g. distrust (and stop using) Google for displaying ads? What about Windows/OSX which are orders of magnitude less trust-able than an open source OS. If you don't like a more mainstream consumer Linux then why not install Arch or Debian or Bodhi and refrain from badmouthing?