I've been playing with Ubuntu 19.04 in a MV for a few days.
Review: O. My. Dog.
I mean, it's like going back ten years - except incredibly more complicated than it was.
It's got... nothing.
Nautilus has become "Files" and it... the Windows 3.11 file manager was better.
Not only it doesn't have a terminal window, it doesn't even have an "open in terminal" right-click. And then it hasn't got... anything else pretty much.
Installing Nemo helped a bit. Not that it was easy.
About half of what I tried to install gave "Dependency is not satisfiable".
Try putting the dock in the middle of the bottom of the screen.
You have to install "Tweaks", and then they don't work because you also need "Shell extensions".
To install those, you have to install a Chrome extension in Firefox. And then it gives red "Error" boxes (totally unspecified) and half the stuff doesn't work.
Even then, the "dock" is pathetic. You can't minimise a window by clicking on the icon. So if you want to repeatedly open-close one, like to see differences and things, you have to keep moving the mouse from the bottom centre of the screen to the top right.
Every Dock alternative I tried, not only they gave Dependency is not satisfiable, adding the ppas came with warnings like:
The text editor (Gedit) is... it make vim look good.
I don't remember gedit being so bad.In fact, I'm sure it wasn't.
"Show Applications" only works full-screen.
Which is silly enough, but then if you don't choose one, you have to press "Esc" and it fills the screen with windows,
"Ubuntu software"... is not as bad as Discover, but almost.
It doesn't have widgets.
It doesn't have a wallpaper slideshow (a must for xplanet). You can install one, probably takes half an hour, or uses snap.
A "clean" installation has 14 snap loop devices.
And I haven't really tried to use it for anything "serious" yet. Just basic customisation of the basics.
If you use it for a month or so, finding your disk partitions will probably requite piping to a text file and using Ctrl-F
As I've said, moving from KDE to Gnome is like jumping of a Ducati 916 S4 and jumping onto a Piaggio Zip 50.
Still, the majority of Ubuntu users seem to prefer Gnome.
Well, I guess, the majority of people on motorcycles out there use scooters...
Review: O. My. Dog.
I mean, it's like going back ten years - except incredibly more complicated than it was.
It's got... nothing.
Nautilus has become "Files" and it... the Windows 3.11 file manager was better.
Not only it doesn't have a terminal window, it doesn't even have an "open in terminal" right-click. And then it hasn't got... anything else pretty much.
Installing Nemo helped a bit. Not that it was easy.
About half of what I tried to install gave "Dependency is not satisfiable".
Try putting the dock in the middle of the bottom of the screen.
You have to install "Tweaks", and then they don't work because you also need "Shell extensions".
To install those, you have to install a Chrome extension in Firefox. And then it gives red "Error" boxes (totally unspecified) and half the stuff doesn't work.
Even then, the "dock" is pathetic. You can't minimise a window by clicking on the icon. So if you want to repeatedly open-close one, like to see differences and things, you have to keep moving the mouse from the bottom centre of the screen to the top right.
Every Dock alternative I tried, not only they gave Dependency is not satisfiable, adding the ppas came with warnings like:
Code:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:docky-core/ppa This ppa is used for docky developers. Beta testing anything here is like walking into a burning building. We wont stop you, but you will probably get cooked alive.
I don't remember gedit being so bad.In fact, I'm sure it wasn't.
"Show Applications" only works full-screen.
Which is silly enough, but then if you don't choose one, you have to press "Esc" and it fills the screen with windows,
"Ubuntu software"... is not as bad as Discover, but almost.
It doesn't have widgets.
It doesn't have a wallpaper slideshow (a must for xplanet). You can install one, probably takes half an hour, or uses snap.
A "clean" installation has 14 snap loop devices.
And I haven't really tried to use it for anything "serious" yet. Just basic customisation of the basics.
If you use it for a month or so, finding your disk partitions will probably requite piping to a text file and using Ctrl-F
As I've said, moving from KDE to Gnome is like jumping of a Ducati 916 S4 and jumping onto a Piaggio Zip 50.
Still, the majority of Ubuntu users seem to prefer Gnome.
Well, I guess, the majority of people on motorcycles out there use scooters...
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