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(Unverified)Oct 26th 2010 5:41PM
You know... I am so glad I don't use Ubuntu anymore.
First off, they all lost their minds and broke our sound with Pulse Audio, then they went ahead and almost irreversibly integrated Pulse Audio into Ubuntu to make it next to impossible to remove without losing sound completely in the process.
Then they decided to REMOVE some superior open source apps from te default install because some idiot on their team decided that they had some adequate alternative. No, Empathy is NOT comparable to Pidgin and F-Spot sure as hell doesn't come close to GIMP, yet the Ubuntu devs decided to put those in as replacements anyway.
Then they decided to jack up the titlebars so the buttons are, quite simply, poorly placed. And it all seems horribly arbitrary.
Then I think at some point Mark (Who is increasibgly showing he has no clue what makes a usable desktop by this point.) considered dropping the system tray for no reason.
Now they're leaving GNOME for Unity. Yeah. Now there's just simply NO logic in what direction Ubuntu's development is going in. None. Say goodbye to Ubuntu being the answer to Linux being a success on the desktop, Mark killed it.
What's next? Ditching X altogether and trying some cheap window manager just because it is "new?" Maybe switch Ubuntu from Linux to Darwin? Come on! How many more idiot decisions will it take before Ubuntu loses its success?
GenericOct 27th 2010 5:02AM
You are so dramatic. Ubuntu is not specifically designed for people who use GIMP on a daily basis but rather for the F-Spot group, i.e. Mom and Dad. GIMP is a professional image editor and I love it but it is not what I or you will use to organize photos. Ubuntu is targeting the regular consumer and is not competing with other Linuxes for that matter. All the other distros are focused on giving you developer tools and more of them. I really don't use the 5 or so DVDs that I have to download to get that X version of some distro. That is so user unfriendly especially when you are not a geek or hacker and I always end up using only the first DVD because I don't want the kitchen sink installed as well. Ubuntu is not an attempt to steal geeks and hackers from other distros but rather trying to make Linux useful for communities at large. Linux has been around for ages but most of the other distros are so horrible to install, upgrade or use and have a very steep learning curve to the point that people are paying Microsoft loads of money to be able to get online and chat and send emails. This is the crowd that Ubuntu is trying to serve.
The likes of Suse and Debian are not trying to better Windows or Mac OS, they are trying to better Linux. In their wake they have left the average computer user, who doesn't program for a living and only uses a computer as a tool, clasping onto proprietary software to get online and print photos. This is a shame for the open source community. What is the point of having all this wealth of tools that are so hard to use that it is easier to pay money to get what you want done. I personally love GIMP, but I don't think my parents use either GIMP or Photoshop to organize and print photos. Not that they won't want to use such programs on a daily basis, but these apps are not even suitable for such usage.
Unity is nice and simple and doesn't need getting used to. There is nothing to learn to start using it, but you could write a manual about GNOME. Besides that, I believe (not 100% sure) Unity is a derivative of GNOME.
Now if you need GIMP just head to the Synaptics Package Manager like I did.