When I tried to add back in my desktop cube, I was stuck with no window having a menu bar, no launcher bar, and no top desktop bar. Although I could still get to command line by Ctrl-Alt F#, what would be a command to start basic Gnome features? And as far as a distro, what does it say about the other mods they have as part of the main trunk? I just can't overlook a fubar of this magnitude, I am only just now reconsidering RedHat after the gcc 2.96 debacle. (RedHat released a beta + mods version of the compiler that couldn't properly compile the main c libraries, it finished, but the entire toolchain was subtly broken, and I was doing an LFS build - wasted about 3 days because of it). Also, with my wife, son, mom, and aunt on Linux, I wouldn't want them to do an update that hoses them after I put them all on ubuntu. Luckily, they are still on mint except my wife (kubuntu for now).
Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: "A.Padilla" <[email protected]> > Date: May 1, 2011 10:52:03 AM EDT > To: Marshall <[email protected]> > Cc: Jax-LUG <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Just say no! Ubuntu 11.04 is crap > > You could just change the UI. What makes Ubuntu compelling, for me, is the > package management (apt), the documentation and how up to date the packages > are. You sure there's no way to just get standard gnome as your ui? > > On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > I just installed 11.04 Ubuntu yesterday, and today am researching a new > distro. After being an Ubuntu fanboy for a good long while, i'm done. This > new Unity launcher bar is buggy at best, disables multiple desktops by > default, gets rid of the FREAKING APPLICATION MENU, and removes an > applications menus (some are hidden in the top bar and can be revealed with a > mouseover, gparted had none, nada, zip. I had to either Ctrl-Alt F1 and kill > it from there, or use the god-awful unity crap, which only became visible > again after switching desktops, and right-click and Quit from there. I > haven't decided on CentOS, Gentoo, rPath, Arch, or LFS. I would do LFS again, > but I still haven't found a good indie package management tool. > > Sent from my iPhone > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > >
