On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 10:07:41AM +0800, jam wrote: > What I was observing was that the ubuntu folk, gnome folk do is dumb > down the interface in a way that makes it hard to recover. If I don't > want to doit-that-way the recovery is hidden and cloaked in mystique.
This has nothing to do with Ubuntu at all, but rather, is a Gnome decision to provide a desktop environment with sensible defaults, backed by usability testing. It is, in my view, a good idea, as part of Gnome's popularity stems from the fact that, if you use it the way it was designed to be used, it's quite functional. Some people want to be able to tweak everything, and for them, KDE is a better fit. And Canonical supports a KDE based distro, Kubuntu. In addition, since Ubuntu is largely based on Debian, they're simply inheriting a lot of Debian defaults/behaviours as well. Ubuntu's goal is to provide you with a distro that: 1) Has a good coverage of apps to handle all your needs. 2) Provide 1 and only 1 app to provide a functionality. 3) Make sure the apps provided work well together. 4) Provide both community and commercial support for the default config. These seem to be sensible goals, and judging by Ubuntu's popularity, also seem to resonate with a lot of users. So, of course, if you put a lot of work in to make sure that, say, Rhythmbox works as your default media player, and a user comes along and installs something else, then complains that it isn't automatically doing everything the user expects is should, I think it's a fair cop to say, "look, we support Rhythmbox, if you do something else, you'll have to figure it out for yourself, or maybe someone in the community can help you". I'd like to point out that you still have WAY more options under Ubuntu for customizing things than you do on, say, Vista or OSX. Ubuntu just doesn't support as many as say, Debian. And, of course, you're always free to not use Ubuntu at all: Debian, Fedora, SuSE, Slackware, Mepis, all have pros and cons. It's all about choice. Instead of complaining about how a vendor chooses to run their business, just find one that DOES suit your style. Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | "Eternity is a very long time, Systems Department | especially towards the end." Legal Aid Manitoba | -- Woody Allen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
