OT war story / whine: more Windows 8 adventures (fwd)

[Mauro Souza]

When Ubuntu natty came out with Unity, I left Ubuntu. I was using Ubuntu
since dapper, when they used to deliver CDs to your door. I switched to
Mint, and Cinnamon is great.
Now I installed Ubuntu 13.10 again, installed Cinnamon on it, and was happy
with the results. Until I changed jobs, got a dumbed down Dell, got
mandatory Windows apps to run all the time...
Now I run Ubuntu 13.04 on a Virtualbox inside Win7, and Cinnamon don't work
as it should. It consumes up to 90% CPU doing nothing, and I discovered
that the 3D driver from VirtualBox and Cinnamon don't talk friendly between
them. So back to Unity...
I kinda liked it, after getting used to it. I am thinking on installing
Xfce or Fluxbox (from my old RedHat 5 days), but I don't have much time
now...

Mauro
http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521
Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God.


2013/8/22 D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>

> [more censored communicatino from DCB]
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> From: David Collier-Brown <davec-b-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Cc: James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:53:35 -0400
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: OT war story / whine: more Windows 8 adventures
> Reply-To: davecb-0XdUWXLQalXR7s880joybQ at public.gmane.org
>
> On 08/22/2013 02:30 PM, James Knott wrote:
> > D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> >> PS: maybe there is a disease going around.  I find Ubuntu 13.04 and
> >> Fedora 19 update GUIs much worse than their predecessors'.  So I just
> >> use the text-base commands.
> > I run openSUSE and run KDE4 in KDE3 mode.  I hate that new desktop
> > that's default in KDE4.  I guess the developers think fluff is more
> > important than function.
> >
> Everyone wanted to try an user interface experiment at the same time,
> thereby losing a LOVELY opportunity to move disgusted Windows users to
> one of the more GUI-friendly Linuxes.
>
> Thus far I'm using none of them, waiting for the market to shake out the
> no-hopers.
>
> --dave
>
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