On 3 January 2013 09:29, Russel Winder <russel@winder.org.uk> wrote:
On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 00:34 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/3/2013 12:25 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> > 1/3/2013 12:22 PM, Russel Winder пишет:
> >> I threw in the towel on Ubuntu when Unity came out as the default UI.
> >>
> > Going OT but can't agree more :)
>
> I use a command prompt, and don't particular care about the UI <g>.

There was a revolution in Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora that will affect
you even if you are just a command line person (as I am).  Ubuntu moved
to Unity which only Canonical staff seem to like. Debian and Fedora

I don't know, there are many users out there who rather like Unity too...

 
stuck with GNOME 3 and the Gnome Shell, which many people hate but

Debian did switch to XFCE as the default desktop environment in August, and I think Mint forked Gnome 2.  There's a lot a distribution can do or can switch to, so they are not really stuck at all.

 
actually a lot of people (including me now, but not originally) really
prefer over GNOME 2. Various high profile people (cf. Linus Torvalds)
panned GNOME Shell and skipped off to XFCE on GNOME 3 and then KDE.

His attack on GNOME Shell was a bit OTT, but his move to KDE is entirely
his choice.


Doesn't he just keep on switching between Gnome2. Gnome3, XFCE and KDE once every 2 months?

Every now and then makes a comment that things are better, but ultimately is annoyed that right click doesn't do what he wants it to do before going away and doing what he is best at.


 
Even if you just manage command line terminals, the evolution will hit
you.

It's analogous to the way Windows 7 evolved into Windows 8, but not so
revolutionary.


Looks like a child made it.  I tested Server 2012 in a VM, couldn't find the start menu until a colleague kindly pointed out that I need to put the cursor in a very peculiar place in the bottom left hand side of the screen that is rather difficult to get to if you are accessing via a console window... Well done Microsoft, once again you've reaffirmed all the reasons for dropping you in 2005... and gave me some new ones along the way too. ;)

Regards
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Iain Buclaw

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