Month: October 2012

Ever since Ubuntu has gone the way of the Unity Desktop and GNOME has gone to version 3, I have been a homeless Linux wanderer. I tried Linux Mint, but my graphics card couldn’t handle the Cinnamon desktop. So I used the MATE version. It was workable but it had little bugs. I then tried openSUSE KDE version. It worked on my system but was slow. Furthermore I don’t like the KDE applications, probably because I am used to the GNOME ones.

So I finally decided to give Fedora a try. I knew I didn’t like GNOME 3, so I went with the XFCE version. I am now on day three of my use of Fedora 17 and I like it. It is a little harder to install flash and lame, but not too hard. I just went over to the Fusion website and installed them. I will keep you up to date.

Just a quick update. I am still using Fedora with very little problems. I do want to mention that I customize it a bit. I use Google Chrome as my default browser and I remove Firefox completely. I also use Evolution for my email. I also customize my desktop to make it fit my needs. It is more like Windows, but I like it this way. Rather than explain all the customizations I had added a screen shot below:

Ubuntu continues its downward spin as it continues to disregard and even offend its users. The latest is the integration of Amazon search queries by default in the Unity Dash. Disregarding objections from users, Ubuntu is not backing down. Like it or not the overlord Mark Shuttleworth has spoken.

Bad as what may be, his response to the community was worse. Mark Shuttleworth words were, “Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already. You trust us not to screw up on your machine with every update. You trust Debian, and you trust a large swathe of the open source community. And most importantly, you trust us to address it when, being human, we err.”

Well actually, I beginning to not trust you Mark Shuttleworth. You continue to ignore the community. You continue to drive Ubuntu were you want it. Sorry Mark, but you are killing Ubuntu. I left and many more are going to leave. And you know what, it’s a shame. Ubuntu 10.04 was my favorite operating system. Now I am searching for something close.

LINKS
http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/ubuntu-has-bigger-problem-its-amazon-blunder-203467
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182