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Ubuntu pre-Unity was pretty good. Yeah we have two CentOS 4 boxes. They aren't connected to the internet just an old fashioned DUP to receive and send text fro
by batou 11y ago
Ubuntu pre-Unity was pretty good.
Yeah we have two CentOS 4 boxes. They aren't connected to the internet just an old fashioned DUP to receive and send text from a client's mainframe and wrap it in a SOAP request and post to an internal host on an internal LAN. One of them had an uptime of 6 years until our UPS blew up.
- beagle3 11y agoHave you tried recently? The first few versions of Unity were awful - but I tried again (Trusty, 14.4), and whoa - realized I like it better than the Mac and Gnome2 I'm still using occasionally. It took a while to take off, and I still meet the occasional bug - but it's extremely usable right now. YMMV.
- TillE 11y agoYeah, once you turn off the internet search crap, Ubuntu is pretty comfortably the least terrible desktop Linux distro. I simply don't have the time these days to configure X and everything from scratch, and Ubuntu mostly manages to take care of that for me. Then it gives you a desktop environment which looks a lot like my OS X setup, and is perfectly fine at doing basic things.
- batou 11y agoThanks for the heads up - I havent tried since 13.04. Will have a bash in a VM today. I've not got on with OSX since 10.5 TBH so I'm with you there plus I'm allergic to MBPs for some reason; end up with bad rash on palms.