Have you switched away from Ubuntu (on desktop) due to Unity?

Carlosinfl said:
Ubuntu has had tons of issues beyond Unity like USB performance and much more. Unity was the final nail in the coffin for me. It's beyond awful. I can't believe nobody raised their hand and asked WTF are we doing?!?!?
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Mark Shuttleworth is Canonical and has the right to unilaterally make a decision like that. Unfortunately, instead of taking the criticisms (constructive and otherwise) and learning from them, he is openly hostile to anyone that doesn't share his vision of Ubuntu.

It was a great ride (Ubuntu-er since 2006) but I'm off that train.
 
I guess when you've been to space, you can tell everyone else to "suck it".
 
yup, moved one machine to XP, another partition to #!

GF is looking to pave her lappy...she hates the brain dead appleness of it...she clicked the upgrade and was livid with rage at what it had done to her desktop.

edit/ don't even get me started on the pulseaudio implementation
 
I really liked Ubuntu, I don't care too much for customisation but it let me get my OS set up the way I liked in minutes... now with Unity I've switched to XUbuntu, Unity is just awful.
 
Absolutely hate Unity. I'm going to nuke my netbook and switch to Arch with either Gnome3 or XFCE.
 
I moved on from Ubuntu, and moved on to Arch. I really liked it, but was having problems with a few things. I'm actually in the act of re-installing the latest 64bit on my desktop as we speak, but now that I think about it, I think I was just trying to bite off too much at once. I went from Ubuntu to Arch+OpenBox. I think I'll just go to Arch+Gnome.
 
I tried Unity and found it worthless for a regular desktop workstation.
It seems to be a UI intended for touch screens.
I have stuck with Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) on my main work system fearing upgrading would break some mission critical functions.
And it has been great until recently. Minimized apps are not showing up on the panel. They just "disappear". Also my multiple desktops don't work anymore. I have reloaded the Gnome desktop, Compiz, gnome panels, etc with the package manager to no avail. :( This sucks big time because I have to be able to multitask at work, and this is killing me!

Also I have been using Kubuntu (KDE) on my laptop and I really like it much better than Gnome.
Gnome really seems to be buggy when used long term. This latest episode of the desktop function breaking is the last straw.
 
I haven't been to happy with 11.04 myself. It's been really sluggish and the install experiences I've had with it are irritating to say the least. Haven't even considered 11.10

Just downloaded openSuse 12.1 to see how it works out.

I really need something that can give me some enterprise support.
The only thing I appreciated about 11.04 over 10.04 was LikeWise's join domain app, not enough to keep me around when it's easily done in terminal.

Oh well. I think I've fallen off the Ubuntu train as well.
 
Once 10.xx becomes irrelevant, I will be moving to Mint once and for all.

11.xx is just way more bloated than it needs to be.
 
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I'm curious to hear everyone's experiences with Mint. It looks fantastic, very minimal.
 
Which one? There is Linux Mint Debian Edition, and regular Linux Mint. I like LMDE with Xfce much better than regular Mint. Uses a lot less resources, and it's a rolling release.

Whichever one you prefer, it's good to know the LM guys know what's important to have for a working desktop.
 
Hey I need to find the active window menu (file, edit, view, tools) but I 1st need to full screen my window to get those options :rolleyes:

Drag mouse cursor to top left screen to maximize window...Ahh fuck here is that damn docking menu that pops out of nowhere and no I have to wait for it to move so I can maximize my window...who thought of this crap :mad: :confused: :mad:
 
I like mint, but with the following caveats:

mint/ubuntu - no official way to upgrade
mint/debian - updates released in mint "packs" which are way behind anything modern.

I've been dissapointed with both, although the gui/out of the box experience is better than ubuntu in both cases.
 
I moved away from 10.10 and upgraded to 11.04 Ubuntu. Good news is the multiple desktops works again. It appears they were just turned off, but the options to turn them back on disappeared from the menus. That I never figured out.
I turned Unity off and uninstalled it. Worthless in my opinion. I'm considering the latest version 11.10 because it has the new 3.0 linux kernel. But so far so good with 11.04
I'm waiting for prices to drop some on the AMD FX CPUs. I plan a major upgrade away from this 2.2 Ghz Phenom. I would like a solid 4Ghz with a FX and I will probably run Kubuntu because I prefer KDE over Gnome.
 
I use Linux as a secondary OS and moved away from Ubuntu due to GNOME and Unity. I really, really tried to use Unity and it's just too annoying. I moved to OpenSuse (which has its own set of problems), but I'm thinking of going back to Ubuntu once 12.04 LTS is released.

I installed XP on my tablet PC and I forgot what a rocket it is on somewhat modern hardware (4gb, 2.1GHz dual core mobile processor). :p
 
I refuse to try Ubuntu. If something cannot even detect my mouse on install I won't touch it.
Most other distro's will at least have access to the mouse. I use Mint regular it just works and
detects everything.
 
jcg624 said:
I refuse to try Ubuntu. If something cannot even detect my mouse on install I won't touch it.
Most other distro's will at least have access to the mouse. I use Mint regular it just works and
detects everything.
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Wow.
I have probably installed different flavors of Linux on several different machines and I NEVER head an issue with detection and automatic setup of the basic hardware.
The only issues I had was Xorg and the X1400 video on my Thinkpad. Mint didn't like it. Worked fine on Ubuntu. Worked fine on Kubuntu.
But the basics, mouse (wireless or whatever), keyboard, NIC, monitor, etc, etc always worked first time.
 
Moved to LMDE and Mint 12, huge difference in stability and performance compared to Ubuntu.
Canonical really dropped the ball with 11.04 and 11.10.
 
jcg624 said:
I refuse to try Ubuntu. If something cannot even detect my mouse on install I won't touch it.
Most other distro's will at least have access to the mouse. I use Mint regular it just works and
detects everything.
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I hate Unity and have moved away from Ubuntu because of it...but dude...uh, your doing it wrong, loaded tens of distros on tens of machines, never had mouse issue, ever
 
^ +1 to that!

Finally done with Mint 12, noob OS at best.
LMDE is great for servers and dev systems, but Mint 12 is not up to standards in terms of stability.

Xubuntu or even Ubuntu with XFCE 4.8 is great.
 
Nope so far I am good with Ubuntu.

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I'm liking Linux more and more when I have to fix busted windows systems.
I got a M-Series Gateway from my dad with a busted LCD and mashed keyboard. It was only a few months old when one of my sisters kids stepped on it. :rolleyes:
I told my dad LCD replacement panels are as cheap as $50. This one was $120 plus another $30 for a keyboard. He told me to forget it, he would buy a new one.
I backed up his data for him and he said keep the laptop.
It still looks like new accept for the LCD and keyboard. My wife's Birthday is coming up so I decided to fix it and give it to her since her laptop is pretty old. Got the LCD and keyboard replaced but was surprised to find out it didn't have a built in recovery partition on the HD. I would needed the recovery disks which I don't have. So I spent a large part of Saturday unloading crap software from Vista, scanning for viruses etc. I finally got it to where it was responsive but still some things flat out didn't work and I can't find the cause. I was really tempted to wipe the whole thing and put Kubuntu on it and be done with problems. :cool:
My wife is a graphics designer and uses a suite of software she has used for years. She definitely wouldn't like it.
 
B34M3R said:
Is this [H]ard forum or what? Why not roll your own: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
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The closest I've got to LFS is a stage 1 Gentoo bootstrapping. It took about 3 days to install and was a good way to figure out how things really worked. I highly recommend it to anyone who really wants to get into Linux. It is not however for the average desktop user.

It was really fun compiling open office over a two day span after the install o_O!
 
On some of these distros, how is hardware support? I'd like to dual boot windows 7 and linux. i have an existing ubuntu installation that uses grub (both for ubuntu and win7) so would i be able to install one of these distro into the ext4 partition and retain my grub config?
is there any linux support for the creative labs x-fi titanium hd? as for the rest of my hardware, i'm pretty sure i'll be fine since ubuntu worked w/o issues sans soundcard.
 
^ Creative product support varies from distro to distro, but overall, I think their products are pretty mediocre for a non-Windows non-gaming machine.
Heck, the top-end models only support 5.1 audio, even today's cheapest mobo-audio supports 7.1 and the hardware-audio offload is a joke with today's processors.

Otherwise, unless you are using very rare/proprietary hardware, the driver support is great and installing drivers is fairly simple depending on the package.
 
I switched back to KDE because I really don't like GNOME classic or Unity, but now that I switched, I realized that I would never switch back. Not even to GNOME 2.
 
I still use Ubuntu on my VM, no issues really. I'm itching to do another Gentoo install, or trying Arch. I'm a bit lazy on that front because apt-get is so easy. I haven't done a vanilla debian in a long time. Doesn't really matter to me, I just end up staring at a dozen terminals anyway.
 
Believe it or not, pacman and the AUR are easier and require far less typing than apt-get. Installation is also very fast and easy.
 
i switched to xubuntu because of unity

i feel like an idiot when i use ubuntu now though because i can't find anything when using unity
 
B34M3R said:
Is this [H]ard forum or what? Why not roll your own: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
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Yeah, I did that a few years ago. Setup a system all the way through a GUI with XFCE. The real fun starts when you finish only to realize there isn't any real package management and maintaining and updating the system is an order of magnitude more difficult than the original install. :eek:
 
Just attempted to load Arch Linux and had to abort half way through. I can't read gibberish and have no desire to learn. If you're looking for usability, look elsewhere. I'm DL'ing Xubuntu as I type.

Like others, I've tossed Ubuntu in the rubbish heap. It was good while it was good but now2 it's shit.
 
Foxcow said:
Would you care to elaborate? What gibberish?
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Example - I'm presented with pages (3 I think) of packages and asked to choose which to install. I have no freaking clue what the majority of them are, some I could take a wild guess but most are gibberish. The rest of the choices I was asked to make are the same, total gibberish to someone who isn't a Linux Guru/Nerd.

I'm looking for something usable by the average computer user and Arch sure as hell ain't it.
 
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