Wow. Been a long while since I've used Ubuntu. I see so much has changed in the world of linux. This is very cool indeed! I've been using Ubuntu itself for a good few months after crying over my crippled vista loaded laptop. I just started using Kubuntu. I have to say the last time I used Kubuntu was back in dapper. What a world of difference. Kubuntu/Ubuntu and linux in general are really shaping up.
My neighbor needed to borrow my laptop the other day and was using it and was going to try and do something. I had gnome as the desktop and because I enjoy the look of vista, I rigged it to look like it. I had to stop him at one point because he was getting ready to perform a windows function and was not going to be able to do it. You should have seen the look on his face when I told him that he wasn't on windows. Fooled him good! hehe...just thought that was a cool thing to share. Same thing with my mother. Had no clue she was on Ubuntu and she keeps asking about it cuz her computer is giving her grief. May switch her over seeing as how her much loved Peggle runs really well on Ubuntu. I know cuz I play it on linux myself.
I'm just now starting to fiddle with Kubuntu. I got my lil tootsies wet with gnome and want to see what KDE is all about. I'm really loving the look and feel of KDE. I messed with 3.5.9 for a few minutes and went crazy. Updated to 4.1 almost right away and wow. For me, I would say this is a definitve of version of a Linux Desktop. The window styles and the look and feel and the icons, I just really like. I thought about having both gnome and kde but i don't like having both just because of having a cluttered menu of apps. I like simple. I don't need 14 different progams that do the same function. Just need one that does it and does it well.
I think there is so much potential here. Follow the Nintendo way and pitch this to the casual crowd. The soccer moms and all that stuff. Watch it take off! Since Hardy has been installed I would say my command line time has been drastically reduced to taking up 0.05 percent of my computing time. When in dapper it was probably about 45 percent. This was fiddling with tweaking and getting things to work properly. Substantial difference if u ask me.
And don't even get me started on the compiz stuff...I have showed that to folks and they absolutely love that stuff...the wiggly windows and the flames and the cube desktop and all the other great stuff with compiz. I'm not gonna dis anybody or any work that they do but I have to say Kubuntu/Ubuntu as a desktop OS seems to me IMHO the most advanced desktop you could ever get. I used to feel like a foreigner in a strange land when first fiddling with linux...now it's starting to feel like the natural thing and the proprietary format is feeling like the foreign land. Well, thanks for reading and allowing me to share.
Take care.
Upo
My neighbor needed to borrow my laptop the other day and was using it and was going to try and do something. I had gnome as the desktop and because I enjoy the look of vista, I rigged it to look like it. I had to stop him at one point because he was getting ready to perform a windows function and was not going to be able to do it. You should have seen the look on his face when I told him that he wasn't on windows. Fooled him good! hehe...just thought that was a cool thing to share. Same thing with my mother. Had no clue she was on Ubuntu and she keeps asking about it cuz her computer is giving her grief. May switch her over seeing as how her much loved Peggle runs really well on Ubuntu. I know cuz I play it on linux myself.
I'm just now starting to fiddle with Kubuntu. I got my lil tootsies wet with gnome and want to see what KDE is all about. I'm really loving the look and feel of KDE. I messed with 3.5.9 for a few minutes and went crazy. Updated to 4.1 almost right away and wow. For me, I would say this is a definitve of version of a Linux Desktop. The window styles and the look and feel and the icons, I just really like. I thought about having both gnome and kde but i don't like having both just because of having a cluttered menu of apps. I like simple. I don't need 14 different progams that do the same function. Just need one that does it and does it well.
I think there is so much potential here. Follow the Nintendo way and pitch this to the casual crowd. The soccer moms and all that stuff. Watch it take off! Since Hardy has been installed I would say my command line time has been drastically reduced to taking up 0.05 percent of my computing time. When in dapper it was probably about 45 percent. This was fiddling with tweaking and getting things to work properly. Substantial difference if u ask me.
And don't even get me started on the compiz stuff...I have showed that to folks and they absolutely love that stuff...the wiggly windows and the flames and the cube desktop and all the other great stuff with compiz. I'm not gonna dis anybody or any work that they do but I have to say Kubuntu/Ubuntu as a desktop OS seems to me IMHO the most advanced desktop you could ever get. I used to feel like a foreigner in a strange land when first fiddling with linux...now it's starting to feel like the natural thing and the proprietary format is feeling like the foreign land. Well, thanks for reading and allowing me to share.
Take care.
Upo
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