The true aesthete will value Ubuntu (or other LoonTop) over OSX or Vista/7 because Canonical or DistroX™ pays assiduous attention to the look & feel and usability of their product. Microsoft and Apple pay hundreds of employees in a feeble attempt to copy the Linux Desktop. True, the latter is only 1% of the market, but the default setup is always the best.
And if you don’t like it, it’s so easy to change it.
Recent “advice” includes, but is not limited to:
Don’t like buttons on the left?
- Open gconf-editor (Alt+F2, type gconf-editor)
- Then navigate to app/metacity/general
- Change button_layout to menu:minimize,maximize,close
(Which setting will vanish when metacity is replaced…)
Don’t like the upcoming RGBA transparency default mode?
Edit something, somewhere. (Not sure what or where, but it probably involves the CLI.)
Does X munch your video? Edit xorg.conf. The details are usually hazy.
Want your printer or WiFi or anything else to work? ItsEasyToChangeIt™. Just follow the Purple Brick Road …
OK, enough sarcasm. I guess I (me, with 20 years in the industry) would indeed find these things easy to change using the CLI and an editor (why gconf-editor, I have no idea, but I am clearly Not Worthy). Two serious questions:
(1) Why are these idiot settings forced on users?
(2) How is using the CLI and obscure, non-validated and typo-prone instructions in an ini file “easy” for 99% of the world’s population?
PS As so often, this is from Piestar. I left out the most pellucid piece of advice (in a comment) from a “Ubuntu Community Leader.” I think Shaka kaSenzangakhona would be proud of this one:
It’s F/OSS. No sense in bitching when you can just fix it.
Also, key bindings stay consistent. Ctrl + Space, [ c | n | x ] help a lot.
This is deeply relevant in some way, but I’m buggered if I can figure out what that way is.
Comments
Oh, a so typical, washed-off argument, that is incredible.
Also preferably use it in combination of claims how you can’t do X on Windows/OSX while you can.
Example:
Freetard: “But on Windows you can’t change your skin!”
User: “Not true, there are loads of packages to change the entire UI, someone even made a Vista skin – with transparency – for NT 4.0, and others ported Windows 3.11’s Window Manager to XP.”
Freetard: “Yes, but in Ubuntu you can do it better! You got the freedom to do it”
User: ....
@ChrisTX
Actually, the arguments usually go this way:
Oh, and DrLoser… maybe you should link ChoiceOfDesktops™ too!
Delano — I did think about ChoiceOfDesktops™, but it was slightly off-message. (Only slightly, though.) Arguing about KDE3/4, Gnome whatever, or various lightweight alternatives is a purely internal (and ridiculously stupid) argument amongst the Tards.
This TM is strictly about how you fix what you’ve got. In fact, I had to double-check YouCanMakeItWhateverYouWant™ to make sure there’s a distinction.
Briefly, YCMIWYW relates to the famous boast of FOSS that “if you source it, they will come.” This one is more “WTF? You don’t understand ini files? You need a GUI? What is wrong with you people?”
ChristX & Delano: Wow. I’ve never heard of Customize.org. What a freaking stupid idea for a website.
I wonder: does anybody still drive around in a 1969 customized Dodge Charger with go-faster stripes down the sides?
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