Windows may be the best seller, but Mac OS/X is considered the gold standard or OSes for its elegance and design quality. The company that makes Ubuntu, Canonical, and particularly its founder, Mark Shuttleworth, have been accused of having Mac envy. Not everyone agrees with him, particularly Linux hardcore users, who think that Linux should not be chasing Windows or OS/X but finding its own path.
At the moment there is a bit of a wedge between Ubuntu and other GNOME distributions, who think a) that Ubuntu does not contribute enough upstream to GNOME and b) that Ubuntu is commercialising Linux. These are all arguable, but that is the common perception. It does not help that Ubuntu keeps on shooting itself in the foot, by migrating away from GNOME at a time when GNOME is coming out with its biggest overhaul in a decade and have announced plans to split from Xorg as soon as a rival X manager, Wayland, is ready. Then last week they set off alarms by announcing that they will be taking 75% of the revenue from Banshee's deal with Amazon music store when this had previously been donated to GNOME. Banshee is a GNOME project and scheduled for inclusion in Ubuntu 11.04. This is still smouldering as I write. Linux is not easy, but the politics of it all is trickier to navigate and Ubuntu for some reason always seems to find itself in the middle of some mess or other. Try Linux Mint. It is Ubuntu without the hassle and it works well for Windows users. :) Roy Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit Location: Canada > > why is it moving to Mac like look and feel? I have not looked at the new > Mac computers but why it better . > > I guess I'm too stuck in windows look and feel.But to be truthful alot of > the old timers even like my self hate windows vista and windows 7 look and > feel. > > Well not user interface friendly for people that know what they doing.The > windows vista and windows 7 look and feel very much look and feel for a > computer novice. > > I guess they feel windows 9x or windows XP look and feel is too dangerous > for computer novice. > > Even file manager yap are old timers even like my self windows is moving > away . > > So don't try to find some thing like this in vista or windows 7 > http://utilities.softlandmark.com/images/screenshots/AdvexSoft___Advanced_File_Manager_3445.gif > > I think they thought this was too dangerous for computer novice to go > into.So every new OS they are moving away from file manager . > > But alot of people just download a third party advance file manager . > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
