Comments on: Sam and me http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: RIP, Dapper Drake « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-49207 Tue, 03 May 2011 09:20:17 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-49207 [...] occasionally hold a grudge, and I apologize for that. I critique Ubuntu even now, because it’s a front-line contender and because I have fond [...]

]]> By: The other *buntus « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48943 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:03:08 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48943 [...] as charged, I generalize too much. I sling mud at Ubuntu without taking care not to splatter the other Ubuntus in the process. So I’m going to amend [...]

]]> By: cwsnyder http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48935 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:18:25 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48935 To me, a dock is OK, but a launcher is a step back to CLI (or even DOS) from the GUI menu thinking. If you really want the GUI methodology, you should program hot-keys to pop your favorite application instead of a launcher.

My $0.02, Ubuntu 11.04 bombs on my desktop with a 128M nVidia GeForce 6200, although it works with an ATI Radeon Express 200 motherboard video.

]]> By: Links 10/4/2011: GNOME 3 Still Dominates the News | Techrights http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48847 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:44:44 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48847 [...] Sam and me It’s not a particularly ringing endorsement. But neither is it particularly precise in its criticisms. It seems Sam has two or three gripes about the beta, and lumped them all together in one muddy package. [...]

]]> By: Ronnie http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48836 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 18:52:06 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48836 I tried to run Unity a few times on my netbook but it always had some type of issues during install. On my laptop, it loaded but it was too cellphonish as others have stated. I finally gave up on Ubuntu and moved to Arch and have never been happier. I use Openbox for my Window manager and love it’s simplicity. However, it does require some manual editing.

]]> By: linuxbakkie http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48833 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 08:48:38 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48833 That’s true. Some programs are removed or replaced by lighter programs, for example: No Open/Libre Office, just Abiword and Gnumeric.

]]> By: Laughing Gnome http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48831 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 07:11:01 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48831 Yeah, Xubuntu 11.04 looks a good choice as its got the latest version of XFCE and from what I hear, has been put on a memory/cpu diet – which is always good!

]]> By: linuxbakkie http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48830 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 06:29:22 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48830 Quote: “I don’t want my computer to behave like a cellphone, I want it to behave like a computer.”

That was the first thing on my mind when I saw Unity.
When I installed this something like this could happen ;)
My Daughter: ´Dad, I can’t call my boyfriend!’
I: Listen girl, how many times do I have to tell you that that thing is actually the computer?

I´ll recommend Xubuntu 11.04 for the Ubuntu users who don’t like Unity. It looks a bit like the old version with less bloat.

]]> By: Laughing Gnome http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48829 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 06:16:17 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48829 I like the traditional style mainly because its been a standard for many years (and a few more to come) and I’ve used it since I began using GUI based environments back in the mid 90′s although my computer use stems back to the late 1970′s.

Having said that I don’t mind change – I’ve seen enough in 30 years!

Gnome Shell, as I have said, just seems to work for me whereas Unity has been nothing but pain. I just prefer the look and feel of Gnome Shell even though I think it could be better and no doubt it will be in time. The Gnome team seems to have done a lot of housekeeping on the core system as I have heard quite a few say Gnome Shell runs lighter than Gnome 2.x – cant comment on this as I’ve not looked into it on my systems.

Anyway, it’s my preference and what I like maybe not to others taste’s. I think it’s going to be a very interesting time seeing what happens to the traditional taskbar v Unity v Gnome Shell.

For myself, Ubuntu has gone out the window now – it’s chosen a set path and it seems maybe I’m not one of it target audience so I will wait and see what options are presented when I come to reloading Linux on my main PC.

At least I have the option to build my Linux system using any distro as a base and maybe go for my favorite Openbox WM – who knows!

]]> By: Charles Norrie http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48827 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 04:49:37 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sam-and-me/#comment-48827 I find Narwhal a dream. It boots so fast. I’ve had a little problems with keys disappearing occasionally and one saving of an unreadable file in Libreoffice. And the wireless doesn’t work, But in didn’t in MM.

Annoying but liveable with.

It’s going to be very very good.

Why doesn’t Gates simply badge up OO as “Windows Final” and get back to his charity work, leaving computing to professionals and not garage hackers”

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