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May 3, 2011 11:37 AM
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A quote from SJVN on his review of Ubuntu Ourobouros, or whatever it’s called.
The Linux desktop “runs great” on a no-name 2006 PC. (Why SJVN bought a no-name 2006 PC is a matter for speculation.)
Elsewhere (Pogson being an obvious example), the Linux desktop “runs great” on something picked out of a dumpster whilst holding a clothes peg over one’s nose.
The Linux desktop “runs great” on just about anything, in fact. See it boot up. See the splash screen. See … well, that’s pretty much all there is to see.
But it “runs great.”
One day it might even make it to the Special Olympics. But if it did so, it would be totally trashed by the cute kid with a smile on his face.
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also, comment #1:
Custom mount point is broken during the initial installation process (if you choose manual partition). Other than that, running smoothly.
golden!
Ubuntu Necrotic Nutsak runs great on my less than 1 year old HPE 112y… well accept for those random white little boxes that pop up at random in different parts of the UI and never go away unless I reboot the PC… nagging as hell. All the other same old complaints apply… within one day of use I ran into a problem that required… you guessed it, a terminal session to fix it.
Do NOT get me started on the stupid transparent menus for the sake of transparent menus deal either.
@YouAgain:
Jeez. Even with a theoretical turnaround of six months (it’s actually been a year, hasn’t it?), you’d think that one of the three hundred seething loons at Canonical might have tested the manual partition option.
Words fail me.
Just noticed this:
1. Take Windows 7.
2. Unlock the taskbar.
3. Move the taskbar to the left screen border.
4. Compare with Ubuntu’s unity
@ DrLoser
You need to understand here that the upgrade cannot be assumed to not brick any drivers or WLAN/Graphics/Sound/etc or suddenly results in kernel panics.
“runs great” rather refers to the time you spend in the CLI after the upgrade being < 2d.
also, I like this one:
“@rshol Linux Mint will be just another Gnome Desktop. It won’t be any faster, smoother, or better looking than any of the other many Linux flavors out there running Gnome. You may not like unity yourself, but this post is just bitter Trolling. If UBUNTU wants something to appeal to consumers whose first experience with Linux is Android, Unity will transition them well.”
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