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> Microsoft's interest is to ram their touch interface down your throat so that you'd get used to it, and your next phone may possibly run Windows s/Micros

by csense 13y ago

> Microsoft's interest is to ram their touch interface down your throat so that you'd get used to it, and your next phone may possibly run Windows s/Microsoft/Canonical/ s/Windows/Ubuntu/

mercurial 13y ago
On the other hand, a different ui is one apt-get away in Ubuntu. It's much less trivial on Windows.
beagle3 13y ago
True. Except ... I'm not paying Ubuntu for my desktop OS; and I would for my server, except they're taking it where I don't want it to go, so I don't. And ... if you don't like Ubuntu's Unity (many people don't), Gnome, KDE, Enlightenment and ten other desktop environments are basically an apt-get away. Remind me, what was the command to get rid of The-UI-formerly-known-as-Metro and use the desktop instead?
- kamaal 13y ago
  >>ten other desktop environments are basically an apt-get away. This one thing you should never do. I once tried to apt-get shift to KDE from GNOME and then could never get Network to work ever again. After searching the internet the only feasible option seemed to be to back up all data and reinstall the OS.
  - beagle3 13y ago
    I used to do it regularly before I settled on my current setup. Never had a problem. I'm not sure what you did, but all it SHOULD do (and in fact, did, for me) was add another session to the login manager. I didn't remove anything, and I can still choose my desktop environment from the list on every log-in.
- honestcoyote 13y ago
  Set Windows 8 to boot to desktop and then install Classic Shell. Metro / Modern is now gone except for the occasional control panel which uses it.
- dagw 13y ago
  Remind me, what was the command to get rid of The-UI-formerly-known-as-Metro and use the desktop instead? In Windows 8.1 you check Boot To Desktop, in Windows 8 you either have to install a small utility or remember to click the big Desktop button in the top left corner every time you reboot. If you want the old style start menu back there are at least 3 different third party options to chose from.
- csense 13y ago
  > the command to get rid of The-UI-formerly-known-as-Metro and use the desktop instead wget http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-16-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso.torrent

by csense 13y ago

> Microsoft's interest is to ram their touch interface down your throat so that you'd get used to it, and your next phone may possibly run Windows s/Microsoft/Canonical/ s/Windows/Ubuntu/

mercurial 13y ago

On the other hand, a different ui is one apt-get away in Ubuntu. It's much less trivial on Windows.

beagle3 13y ago

True. Except ... I'm not paying Ubuntu for my desktop OS; and I would for my server, except they're taking it where I don't want it to go, so I don't. And ... if you don't like Ubuntu's Unity (many people don't), Gnome, KDE, Enlightenment and ten other desktop environments are basically an apt-get away. Remind me, what was the command to get rid of The-UI-formerly-known-as-Metro and use the desktop instead?

kamaal 13y ago
>>ten other desktop environments are basically an apt-get away. This one thing you should never do. I once tried to apt-get shift to KDE from GNOME and then could never get Network to work ever again. After searching the internet the only feasible option seemed to be to back up all data and reinstall the OS.
- beagle3 13y ago
  I used to do it regularly before I settled on my current setup. Never had a problem. I'm not sure what you did, but all it SHOULD do (and in fact, did, for me) was add another session to the login manager. I didn't remove anything, and I can still choose my desktop environment from the list on every log-in.
honestcoyote 13y ago
Set Windows 8 to boot to desktop and then install Classic Shell. Metro / Modern is now gone except for the occasional control panel which uses it.
dagw 13y ago
Remind me, what was the command to get rid of The-UI-formerly-known-as-Metro and use the desktop instead? In Windows 8.1 you check Boot To Desktop, in Windows 8 you either have to install a small utility or remember to click the big Desktop button in the top left corner every time you reboot. If you want the old style start menu back there are at least 3 different third party options to chose from.
csense 13y ago
> the command to get rid of The-UI-formerly-known-as-Metro and use the desktop instead wget http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-16-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso.torrent