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dere we go. started downloading the Ubuntu ISO. now to wait forever.
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 21:35:00 UTC from web-
@techdisk42 Did you get 11.10 or 10.04? 11.10 has an innovative interface called Unity and 10.04 is a couple of years old (but is the Long-Term Support, LTS, version they support for longer) and has an older user interface
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@jdapapayasy You like Unity, huh?
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 21:40:08 UTC from web-
@scribus I do, I'm not in love with it but I totally think they've done something good in attempting a simple, functional, attractive GUI that almost anyone can understand just by looking at (I'm including rocks so that's why "almost"), it'll be ever better with 12.04 according to the hype and when Ubuntu gets to tablets and other devices in 2013/14~ it'll make even more sense
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@jdagrapesy I just never had an issue with the way things have been for years, and I kept hitting a problem of the "dock" (or whatever) on the left popping out when I tried to close a window on my netbook. I'm sure it's fine for people who like it, but it pushed me to Xfce. I'm probably just boring, though. :p
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 21:45:12 UTC from web-
@scribus Sorry I overlooked your reply I think last night. I agree the dock hiding itself gets irritating, that gets fixed in place in 12.04 and supposidly a bunch of customising options are comming in which hopefully will open some doors for people to mod in the interface further, I've kinda considered Unity up until this point to be beta since the 12.04 realise has been hyped so much, personally I love docks, I have a macbook pro and I used it for a few years, but I was certainly one of the users to "WUH DUH CELESTIA IS DAT" when it first came out and GNOME2 was nowhere to be seen, apparently GNOME2 has been included in 12.04 or can be installed normally (apparently buggy, dont know the details) but yea, Unity was a bucket of water to the face but I think that was a good thing now (I've blabbered on about this for too long lol)
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@jdagrapesy 11.10 64-bit. i know people say that 32-bit is more stable, but i have 6 GB RAM, so no 32-bit here!
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 21:40:31 UTC from web-
@techdisk42 I've not heard that argument for 32-bit, maybe back in windows xp days but yea, good choice. 11.10 will give you Unity so maybe we'll see some notices of you screaming out in horror or vomiting love and rainbows over it, we'll see
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@jdamangoesy Naw, ive used Ubuntu before and i love Unity! BTW it just finished downloading. :D
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 21:46:57 UTC from web -
@jdamangoesy I'm no noob! Linux is on every single laptop i own. That would be 4 laptops. Well, actually the laptop im using now doesn't have it, but thats because i had to get the original HDD (which i did install Ubuntu on) replaced
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 21:49:06 UTC from web
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@ponydude Oh sure I hope it gets more extensible but you have to admire the effort they've gone through to bring Unity, I think it's a good attempt at a very 'unified'able interface when they go to different platforms and it's very user friendly, anyone who knows what a window manager probably wants features from awesome or xfce and stuff but as a default it's a good step towards the "(>GNU/<)Linux desktop" :)
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@ponydude Well sure it'll vary from pony to pony but I think they did something alright by doing something different; and talking of GNOME it seems to have taken a long time for other GNOME projects / forks to get anything up that's useable so maybe that wasn't as viable or maybe the Ubuntu team wanted something to differentiate their distro, not be relying on another project to do stuff the way they want it?
Thursday, 29-Mar-12 22:02:47 UTC from web
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