On 3 January 2013 09:29, Russel Winder <rus...@winder.org.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 00:34 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: > > On 1/3/2013 12:25 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: > > > 1/3/2013 12:22 PM, Russel Winder пишет: > > >> I threw in the towel on Ubuntu when Unity came out as the default UI. > > >> > > > Going OT but can't agree more :) > > > > I use a command prompt, and don't particular care about the UI <g>. > > There was a revolution in Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora that will affect > you even if you are just a command line person (as I am). Ubuntu moved > to Unity which only Canonical staff seem to like. Debian and Fedora >
I don't know, there are many users out there who rather like Unity too... > stuck with GNOME 3 and the Gnome Shell, which many people hate but > Debian did switch to XFCE as the default desktop environment in August, and I think Mint forked Gnome 2. There's a lot a distribution can do or can switch to, so they are not really stuck at all. > actually a lot of people (including me now, but not originally) really > prefer over GNOME 2. Various high profile people (cf. Linus Torvalds) > panned GNOME Shell and skipped off to XFCE on GNOME 3 and then KDE. > > His attack on GNOME Shell was a bit OTT, but his move to KDE is entirely > his choice. > > Doesn't he just keep on switching between Gnome2. Gnome3, XFCE and KDE once every 2 months? Every now and then makes a comment that things are better, but ultimately is annoyed that right click doesn't do what he wants it to do before going away and doing what he is best at. > Even if you just manage command line terminals, the evolution will hit > you. > > It's analogous to the way Windows 7 evolved into Windows 8, but not so > revolutionary. > > Looks like a child made it. I tested Server 2012 in a VM, couldn't find the start menu until a colleague kindly pointed out that I need to put the cursor in a very peculiar place in the bottom left hand side of the screen that is rather difficult to get to if you are accessing via a console window... Well done Microsoft, once again you've reaffirmed all the reasons for dropping you in 2005... and gave me some new ones along the way too. ;) Regards -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';