Are you eagerly anticipating this next Ubuntu version? What are you most interested in if you are?
I personally am always happy to check out their latest versions of the OS. Right now I'm very intrigued to see the new gnome 3.0 and I'm glad that thunderbird is the default mail client in this one. I never really got into using evolution. I like the fact that gwibber was rewritten from scratch and the software center has been revamped.
So give me your opinions, guys.
Meh, I don't really have one, lol. I'm a Windows guy.
Vortex said:
Meh, I don't really have one, lol. I'm a Windows guy.
I always come back to windows for the games but if I only cared about browsing the web and messing with media I would migrate completely. I find Ubuntu quite well thought out and done. It also has everything I need. FTPs, Mail Clients, Web Browsers, Image Editors, etc., etc.
Ubuntu has been going downhill since they began implementing Unity as the default interface, as if I'm trying to use a tablet on my Desktop. Ubuntu also is becoming bloated with software I did not ask for.
I have switched over to a combination of CentOS and Debian for most of my uses. CentOS, a great free Enterprise level server OS, was used to host most of the servers I used to run for Minecraft and Half Life.
However as the new CentOS 6 has become thin, I have switched over to Debian, and been incredibly happy with it's performance, and perfect balance of utilities.
All this is considering the default OS you get when you do a stock install, considering you could have easily customized the Distributions any way you wanted.
Although Ubuntu tends to be a bit more forward in it's approach of security, effectively recommending against using the superuser account to do everyday tasks, and locking it out of the OS by default, instead, using SUDO.
One of the answers: Linux Mint or Arch if you know what you're doing
I used SUSE, that's good too. I don't know about Debian cause I always wanted to get the latest version but they kept helding back the release date. I use Ubuntu ATM; Why? Because I'm in a progress of building Chromium OS.
look, fuck ubuntu... unity is fail, and its all gone down hill....
my MOM AND DAD use linux mint.... its like the new ubuntu in my oppinion, its a great starting location for people who are new to linux, and even new to computers (my mom had trouble closing the internet when we had windows.... which was about 3 weeks before switching to mint)
arch is nice if you know what you are doing and like customization.
I like ubuntu before unity, I'm going to do a network boot and install of mint on my 10-13 year old laptop as its the only (feasibly easy) way to install an OS with going through about 3000-5000 floppy transfers, if you were to use ubuntu I'd use the latest version before unity, as someone said its like a tablet OS which what windows 8 is looking to be
It takes me 2 minutes to disable Ubuntu Unity. Not even that.
anyways.. I use ubuntu on my laptop, and ive started getting more into linux, so I can actually work with the linux servers at work :p
really? cool I might give ubuntu another shot, still going to do mint to get a wider experience
GreenSLi said:
It takes me 2 minutes to disable Ubuntu Unity. Not even that.
anyways.. I use ubuntu on my laptop, and ive started getting more into linux, so I can actually work with the linux servers at work :p
Yeah, it was either you or Qain that posted in a previous thread how to go back to the classic gnome gui. Just let the system update and go back to the logging screen and choose Ubuntu Classic. Anyways, Unity's main problem is that it was designed for notebooks. But this new release brings Gnome 3 which has been in the works for quite some time.