On 2014-11-26, Gevisz <gev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 22:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards
> <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-11-25, Maxim Wexler <maxim.wex...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> No. It is not possible in Unity or, at least, it was not possible
>> >> in Unity at the time when Ubuntu 12.04 was released. They really
>> >> *forced* their users to accept the new place of the closing window
>> >> frame button and have argued that it is more ergonomic.
>> >>
>> >> There was not any possibility to change the place of the closing
>> >> window frame button in Unity via configuration options. Quite a
>> >> lot of Ubuntu users complained about it yet in Ubuntu 10.04,
>> >> where the new place of that button was a new default though
>> >> it was possible to change it back via configuration options.
>> >> In Unity, it was absolutely impossible.
>> >
>> > Try Lubuntu, with LXDE.
>>
>> Or Xubuntu with XFCE.
>>
>> I prefer Gentoo over Ubuntu for a host of other reasons, but switching
>> from Ubuntu to Gentoo just to get a different desktop seems like
>> overkill.
>
> Strange enough but according to the information from the
> DistroWatch.com Ubuntu lost a lot of users and its status of the most
> popular Linux distribution after switching from Gnome2 to Unity in
> its 12.04 LTS release.
>
> And its not about a small change in an interface, it is about
> we-know-better-what-you-need approach that drove quite a lot of
> companies to bankrupcy.
That's one of the big reasons I do prefer Gentoo. Ubuntu is great as
long as you want to do everything the "Ubuntu Way". The minute you
want to do something slightly different, it turns into a long hard
swim upstream.
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