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Who’s a grumpy, grouchy guss?

Not everything is an attack. Lighten up already. Smile sunshine! Linux loves you!

One thing… Anyone know a way of specifying/installing this during an Ubuntu install?

Ubuntu works great on Shuttle boxes, until apparently 11.x ?? :/ We dropped back to the old 10.04LTS version and everything was working again.

In my dad’s case, the GUI was completely unusable! Where the top panel should have been located, it was just jumbled colours. And all down the left side of the screen, the same thing (crazy jumbled colours).

While I love Ubuntu, and have used it for many years, for the first time, I’m not so sure if I want to go to the upcoming 12.04; as this might break on my own Shuttle box.

There is a good point about Ubuntu really pushing the envelope and trying to be innovative and I think that is really where they should be heading (and I think that in 12.04 we will see them go even further down that road, moving away from the group who see Linux as a hobby but not something to use on their main machine and moving more towards Ubuntu as a real alternative for the Desktop of tomorrow). I’ll write a post about that later.

In this case, a lot of people were caught out just through an update, rather than actively making a choice to change operating systems. But maybe you don’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.

Would be great if the updating protocol could perform some kind of system diagnostics and help users be more aware of their options.

By the way, I’m actually in favor of Ubuntu having control over Unity instead of going with Gnome, so I guess I just know how to annoy both sides of the argument!

I was being sarcastic. [blush] The emphasis is on the earlier part. There is no reason that Unity should not work if can install on an ARM processor, smartphone or TV. I agree that XFCE will make it run faster BTW. That was not the way it was presented, initially. I think we have that straightened out.

Yes, Linux gives legs to old computers and that is good. You have choice, but your choices diminish as the processor gets older and the RAM is lower. The bar is being raised over time and that is not a bad thing, unless you want to work in a terminal or just use EMACs (not a dig).

I like to push my system to its limits and run the latest and greatest while another user just wants it to work and not worry about updates. Someone else may just need a workstation with minimal requirements. We are all different and with different needs and Linux can accommodate most users’ desktop needs.

What excites me about Unity (not a regular user)is that it brings more choice (not less as critics initially presented it). Early on people lamented the loss of GNOME 2.x and blamed Canonical for changing and reducing their choice. Now people have a broader view. They understand that keeping GNOME 2.x alive was not an option and Canonical was choosing to go with Unity which they could control over GNOME Shell which was under the control of GNOME and there was a bad history.

So now, we can choose between GS, two versions of Unity, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, E17 and a bunch other DEs, including Mate and Cinnamon made to look like GNOME 2.x. We have a choice of window managers as well. So we may have lost GNOME 2.x but we have more than we had before. I call that a win for users.

Many GNOME 2.x users will be happy with XFCE as Gary found. It has always been a good desktop choice and the demise of GNOME 2 may give it impetus to get even better. Another project to benefit was Comiz which was dying until Canonical decided to use it as the window manager in Unity 3D.