Djzn.BR
August 21st, 2010, 07:38 PM
I have always admired on how Ubuntu took over, but seriously, last release Lucid Lynx (ironically a LTS release), made me remember the Mandrake Linux days - a very bleeding edge & unpolished distro.
Fact is that, because of the increase of some silly desktop bugs, it turned out the light that was on Ubuntu for this season, to me.
For example, the Compiz cursor bug, where you can't resize the DMZ cursors when Compiz is enabled. Another misterious bug I have never thought I would hit, that was a sticky on the Karmic release notes for a while: downloaded torrents from Transmission get corrupted in ext4, some times, some times. I miraculously hit this bug past week. Note: the bug is set to invalid in launchpad.
The plymouth horrible logo vs. proprietary vga drivers. That makes me think: If you don't want thousands of users going through this bug, don't ship proprietary drivers in the first place! Ok, ok, I there is a workaround and I fixed it. But will I have to do that for Maverick? What about a corporate network with 20 machines?
But I am a comprehensive person. I understand that 64-bit is not effective in any OS. I know that Flash sucks in 64-bit Ubuntu. Sucks big time. A champion record for killing any browser. That is not Ubuntu's fault. Never been.
But I will never undertand why in the world we still CAN'T LASSO FILES in list view within Nautilus, which is ironically, the default GNOME desktop and default shipped file manager. I guess people can be considered too stupid and dumb to use ony "icons view". But I know power users turn that crap off in favour of list view very quickly. Any power user which manages a FLAC collection for example, with 3000 songs. And Nautilus can't even do it. Windows 7 and Mac can, Thunar can, Dolphin can... but not Nautilus.
And this time around with Lucid, several desktop bugs were experienced by me and the community. Applets placed on top of other applets, applets going funny... All sorts of little patchy things that I did not see in Karmic Koala, which was more stable and solid.
I have to praise greatly the artwork theme in Lucid, which is the finest theme and I've ever seen. (Even though I also have to agree that the titlebar buttons shouldn't go anywhere but right side).
I do hope that in the near future, issues like those are terminated. Ubuntu needs to fly higher. It's a quality distro, and should encorage Windows 7 users to make a move. Not encourage Windows 7 users to be relieved when they're using Windows. With the desktop usability being a struggle to both GNOME and KDE, I guess Windows 7 users are going to be really confortable for a long time in Windows.
As a IT manager, I would say that right now, you shouldn't keep Windows XP. Between Windows XP and Ubuntu, you go straight with Ubuntu, no second thought. Vastly superior.
But digging Windows 7 for a coupld of weeks, I would think that Ubuntu has still to catch up some things. Win7 is heavier, I know, but in terms of usability, if I were a KDE or GNOME developer, I would worry about how good is to use Windows 7 UI (or MacOS for that matter).
Fact is that, because of the increase of some silly desktop bugs, it turned out the light that was on Ubuntu for this season, to me.
For example, the Compiz cursor bug, where you can't resize the DMZ cursors when Compiz is enabled. Another misterious bug I have never thought I would hit, that was a sticky on the Karmic release notes for a while: downloaded torrents from Transmission get corrupted in ext4, some times, some times. I miraculously hit this bug past week. Note: the bug is set to invalid in launchpad.
The plymouth horrible logo vs. proprietary vga drivers. That makes me think: If you don't want thousands of users going through this bug, don't ship proprietary drivers in the first place! Ok, ok, I there is a workaround and I fixed it. But will I have to do that for Maverick? What about a corporate network with 20 machines?
But I am a comprehensive person. I understand that 64-bit is not effective in any OS. I know that Flash sucks in 64-bit Ubuntu. Sucks big time. A champion record for killing any browser. That is not Ubuntu's fault. Never been.
But I will never undertand why in the world we still CAN'T LASSO FILES in list view within Nautilus, which is ironically, the default GNOME desktop and default shipped file manager. I guess people can be considered too stupid and dumb to use ony "icons view". But I know power users turn that crap off in favour of list view very quickly. Any power user which manages a FLAC collection for example, with 3000 songs. And Nautilus can't even do it. Windows 7 and Mac can, Thunar can, Dolphin can... but not Nautilus.
And this time around with Lucid, several desktop bugs were experienced by me and the community. Applets placed on top of other applets, applets going funny... All sorts of little patchy things that I did not see in Karmic Koala, which was more stable and solid.
I have to praise greatly the artwork theme in Lucid, which is the finest theme and I've ever seen. (Even though I also have to agree that the titlebar buttons shouldn't go anywhere but right side).
I do hope that in the near future, issues like those are terminated. Ubuntu needs to fly higher. It's a quality distro, and should encorage Windows 7 users to make a move. Not encourage Windows 7 users to be relieved when they're using Windows. With the desktop usability being a struggle to both GNOME and KDE, I guess Windows 7 users are going to be really confortable for a long time in Windows.
As a IT manager, I would say that right now, you shouldn't keep Windows XP. Between Windows XP and Ubuntu, you go straight with Ubuntu, no second thought. Vastly superior.
But digging Windows 7 for a coupld of weeks, I would think that Ubuntu has still to catch up some things. Win7 is heavier, I know, but in terms of usability, if I were a KDE or GNOME developer, I would worry about how good is to use Windows 7 UI (or MacOS for that matter).