On 24/01/12 22:20, Victor Churchill wrote:
On 24 January 2012 20:27, Terry Coles<d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk> wrote:
On Tuesday 24 Jan 2012 19:35:51 Victor Churchill wrote:
Be afraid, be very afraid ... I feel a GOM moment coming on ;-(
All right, I'll bite; what is GOM? (Grumpy Old Man? Not you Victor.)
'fraid so, Terry. OK, I may not seem Grumpy at the Broadway, but that's a
pub :-) I have been finding for the last couple of Ubuntu releases that
it's getting more shiny and phone/tablet friendly, and less friendly to my
vintage of hardware(*). The developers' idea of what the system should be
like seems to be diverging from mine. I have even started wondering about
moving to Mint but inertia has prevented me so far.
Me too. For clients whom I've persuaded to try Linux, I've started
using Xubuntu instead of Ubuntu -- i.e. XFCE4 instead of those
new-fangled 'Unity' and 'Gnome3' things.
And on my own desktop, I've taken the radical step of moving from Ubuntu
to ArchLinux (again with XFCE4). It gives back the feeling of being in
control of the machine.
cheers
Chris
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