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Apparently, though unproven, at 18:38 on Saturday 28 May 2011, Daniel da Veiga |
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> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 20:28, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a |
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> > little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. |
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> > So, since I am familiar with Ubuntu from work, and have it on a couple of |
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> > laptops, I'm installing from the Ubuntu 11.04 live disk (video is just |
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> > fine). |
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> Good luck. |
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> A friend just dropped Ubuntu cause they simply decided to use Unity, and |
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> the dashboard is just (his words) weird. He was used to the Gnome look, |
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> and they simply changed everthing with an upgrade. |
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> I stick with Gentoo, at least I know my next upgrade won't change my whole |
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> interface... |
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Ubuntu are simply doing what KDE already did - take a risk, go with something |
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new, try to stay ahead of the curve. |
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Unity works fine on my netbook with 600 vertical pixels. I'm not sure it would |
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work well on my 1920x1200 notebook though. That's the risk one takes with |
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disruptive technologies, you might annoy some of your users |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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