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Things I would like: 1) drop the ridiculous Unity desktop. maybe I am old and out of touch, but that was <i>horrific</i>. 2) Dual boot just works with UEFI/Wi
by retube 13y ago
Things I would like:
1) drop the ridiculous Unity desktop. maybe I am old and out of touch, but that was <i>horrific</i>.
2) Dual boot just works with UEFI/Windows 8.1
3) Supports audio and graphics hardware in common brands like Acer
I have 9 installed on a samsung since 2009 and it's been an absolute pleasure, just worked. Trying to get 12 or 13 onto a modern Acer however... was a nightmare. V disappointing. I still don't have a functioning soundcard and the battery indicator only starts 1 in 10 boots.
- chatman 13y agoGNOME Shell is way better, and now much more stable than before and better than Unity.
- retube 13y agoOk may give it a wirl. Have xubuntu at the mo which is not bad.
- SomeoneWeird 13y agotake a look at Linux Mint, too, ubuntu without unity, and a lot more polished :)
- owaislone 13y agoThings I would like: >>> 1) drop the ridiculous Unity desktop. maybe I am old and out of touch, but that was <i>horrific</i>. 1) They continue to not listen to you. :)
- arunc 13y agoKDE is a sane switch. Completely customizable.
- JanezStupar 13y agoI concur. While I actually like Unity and after during 13.x series Unity stopped working for me I ended up on KDE. Thus far I have been able to costomize it to a level where it beats any other desktop environment I have used so far. Only beef I have with it is inability to set windows key as launcher shortcut. But alt+r works reasonably well.
- abhinavk 13y agoI have Meta+Space set to Kicker and Alt+Space to KRunner.
- jfoster 13y agoWhy would you use Ubuntu if you think Unity is ridiculous? That's like getting a Mac and saying that Apple should drop OS X. It's very clear that Unity isn't for everyone, but I don't understand why people who know it's not for them seem to still want to use Ubuntu.
- dagw 13y agoUbuntu is a fairly decent base for a desktop no matter your favorite DE. Their packaging XFCE, KDE and Gnome are as good as any. They are pretty good at getting things working out of the box. Their software is reasonable up to date, and their collections of PPAs are in my experience really up to date on even the most obscure packages. Basically Ubuntu does a lot of things right totally unconnected to Unity.
- unicornporn 13y agoTrue dat. If unity does not appeal, there are *buntu options. IMO, Xubuntu is the way forward.
- zanny 13y agoXubuntu doesn't have the flashy mass market appeal. For power users its great due to its low footprint, but if I was trying to sell Linux I'd show them Cinnamon or Zorin or KDE, and maybe Gnome, because they all have eye candy and the first three work a lot like Windows (albeit KDE is a lot more powerful than the rest in that regard and would probably scare newbies off).
- andrey-p 13y agoXubuntu is definitely my favourite of the bunch. I find it's the only *buntu the looks of which I don't find jarring.
- retube 13y agoBecause, despite my complaints above, it has the best hardware support, the best knowledge base, the largest community of users and it's pretty trivial to switch to another desktop.
- izietto 13y agoMint's cinnamon and Mate are awesome; give them a try
- eddieroger 13y agoI don't care for Unity either, but I believe that Ubuntu believes (and I agree with) that Unity is what will help them close Bug #1. If the dream of a phone that is also a computer comes true, and that dream forces me to use Unity, I'll learn to cope with it, just like I learned to cope with Gnome once.
- massysett 13y agoHe already closed Bug #1 :) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 Really though, it's iOS and Android that closed bug #1.
- zanny 13y ago1) There are another 4 recongized Ubuntu spins for KDE, Gnome, LXDE, and XFCE, plus all the derivatives with other desktops like Cinnamon, Elementary, Enlightenment, and Zorin. You are not limited to Ubuntu Unity, and unlike any other OS you do have options. 2) I haven't had that much experience with Windows 8, but for many systems the UEFI implementation by the vendor is so bad that it will only boot singular binaries in the Windows EFI locations. That means you can never have multiple OSes on that EFI, and there ain't jack any Linux distro can do to change that. Additionally, Windows will wipe all other EFI applications when you install it and it regenerates an EFI partition, as it always has in every version ever, it will never play nice with any other OS. 3) This relates to 2, but if hardware vendors won't produce Linux drivers nobody can force them. But the important lesson is to not buy a Windows computer and bitch when it isn't a good Linux computer. They are not equivalent, the same hardware is not supported on both OSes (try putting Windows on a RaspPi) and unless you want to have to deal with faulty firmwares and have to stringently analyze every part you buy to make sure its supported hardware (principally because hardware distributors are garbage at mentioning Linux compatibility anywhere) then you should just buy a Linux computer from thinkpenguin, system76, or any of the other actual Linux hardware vendors that will provide you a system that given whatever version of Ubuntu's kernel it is running, and beyond, you know the hardware will work out of the box on any distro. That is how to use Linux.
- csense 13y ago> if hardware vendors won't produce Linux drivers nobody can force them. Not true. The market can vote with their wallets. If you're buying a computer, try to look for models that have good Linux support.
- Shorel 13y agoThings I would like: 1) No more Unity trolls in Ubuntu posts. No one is making you use Unity. There are hundreds of other distributions for you to use, and only one happens to use Unity. Pick any other Linux distribution and stop trolling.