Installed in no time, Xfi drivers installed automatically, drivers for GTX470 installed (almost) automatically, Wine installed in about 10 seconds and WoW running at a higher framerate than it did on Windows 7! Colour me impressed. I've always complained about *nix being a bitch to install and configure after spending days trying to get Slackware and an X server running like 10+ years ago but distros have really matured now.
When did Ubuntu get so .. good?
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Ubuntu saw a huge surge in reputation for being good with drivers around the time of Breezy Badger. For me it became a nice fully usable day to day desktop at exactly Hardy Heron and peaked between Jaunty Jackalope and Maverick Meerkat, having taken a bit of a hit on Intrepid Ibex.
Unity is not good.
Unity is not good.
Unity in 11.04 is not good. Unity in 11.10 looks much, much better and by the time 12.04 comes out it should be one of, if not the best linux desktop environment.
Probably not, World of Warcraft is a bit of an exception, it's always run well under OpenGL in Wine, it's a portable installation too so I'm pretty sure it doesn't try and write to the registry.
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Disagree, it still hides the menubar until mouseover, I want to see-move-click, not see-move-see-move-click. And I bet it still buggers the menubar for eclibse based applications.
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I don't see why they couldn't just have used Gnome 3, i could adapt to use that...
I said it's better, not perfect. I don't like what you've described either, but it's fundamentally very good and is getting rapidly improved.
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It's fundamentally very good, apart from some fundamental problems. The menubar is a hack and it shows, they can't always show the menus because in GTK land the window title is meaningful. And of course the menus often not working...
I don't think Unity will ever be perfect.
I don't think Unity will ever be perfect.
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Do the people complaining about Unity know you can disable it?
Why would you bother when you can just use Mint?
Yeah, for me Ubuntu was at its best about three years ago then started declining. I started disagreeing with some of the decisions Canonical were making too (like the Rhythmbox and Banshee controversies, trying to make the interface more like OS X etc), so eventually for both practical and philosophical reasons I dumped Ubuntu after about four years of using it.
Best Linux-related decision I ever made to be honest. I had a lot of fun trying out other distros and seeing how far they'd come, and even switched to KDE while settling on the magnificent Arch Linux.
I'll always admire Ubuntu for its great success in converting people to Linux, and for a while there it was the best distro by a country mile (in my opinion), but those days are gone.
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Ubuntu is good for the typical desktop user. It's no longer that appealing to tinkerers... In particular the disasters of KDE and later Gnome, well and Unity - One can only imagine what would happen if KDE/Gnome/Unity/Compiz actually focus on a single WM then we may truly have a Windows killer, i.e. gnome team are a bunch of .... missed opportunities with Compiz! re-write from the ground up my arse! keep reinventing the wheel and that's just it you will always have a wheel.
Although I don't use Ubuntu I have allot of respect for the gang as previously said ^^ because they have liberated many people from the deepest, darkest and cesspooliest of dungeons of M$ and into the safe haven of Linux. The same can be said of RedHat which has lead allot of the dev and also Debian which Ubuntu leeches off
. Now hopefully Android will do the same with respect to Apple and M$ with all the patents their stocking up on. And then we need a Google killer as well - no single entity should wield so much power.
Although I don't use Ubuntu I have allot of respect for the gang as previously said ^^ because they have liberated many people from the deepest, darkest and cesspooliest of dungeons of M$ and into the safe haven of Linux. The same can be said of RedHat which has lead allot of the dev and also Debian which Ubuntu leeches off
. Now hopefully Android will do the same with respect to Apple and M$ with all the patents their stocking up on. And then we need a Google killer as well - no single entity should wield so much power.
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Do the people complaining about Unity know you can disable it?
Yes, which I did, but I installed 10.10 again after a staggering number of gtk window decorator and compiz crashes.
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How do I ditch unity and use Gnome 3?
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Perhaps this will help: http://techhamlet.com/2011/05/how-to-install-gnome-3-on-ubuntu-11-04/
I don't know how well gnome 3 plays with ubuntu 11.04 though, I use Mint.
I don't know how well gnome 3 plays with ubuntu 11.04 though, I use Mint.
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Are there any other OS' that can install inside windows, like wubi does?