<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 January 2013 09:29, Russel Winder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:russel@winder.org.uk" target="_blank">russel@winder.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 00:34 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:<br>
> On 1/3/2013 12:25 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:<br>
> > 1/3/2013 12:22 PM, Russel Winder пишет:<br>
> >> I threw in the towel on Ubuntu when Unity came out as the default UI.<br>
> >><br>
> > Going OT but can't agree more :)<br>
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> I use a command prompt, and don't particular care about the UI <g>.<br>
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There was a revolution in Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora that will affect<br>
you even if you are just a command line person (as I am). Ubuntu moved<br>
to Unity which only Canonical staff seem to like. Debian and Fedora<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't know, there are many users out there who rather like Unity too...<br><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
stuck with GNOME 3 and the Gnome Shell, which many people hate but<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Debian did switch to XFCE as the default desktop environment in August, and I think Mint forked Gnome 2. There's a lot a distribution can do or can switch to, so they are not really stuck at all.<br>
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actually a lot of people (including me now, but not originally) really<br>
prefer over GNOME 2. Various high profile people (cf. Linus Torvalds)<br>
panned GNOME Shell and skipped off to XFCE on GNOME 3 and then KDE.<br>
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His attack on GNOME Shell was a bit OTT, but his move to KDE is entirely<br>
his choice.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Doesn't he just keep on switching between Gnome2. Gnome3, XFCE and KDE once every 2 months?<br><br>Every now and then makes a comment that things are better, but ultimately is annoyed that right click doesn't do what he wants it to do before going away and doing what he is best at.<br>
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Even if you just manage command line terminals, the evolution will hit<br>
you.<br>
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It's analogous to the way Windows 7 evolved into Windows 8, but not so<br>
revolutionary.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"></span><br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Looks like a child made it. I tested Server 2012 in a VM, couldn't find the start menu until a colleague kindly pointed out that I need to put the cursor in a very peculiar place in the bottom left hand side of the screen that is rather difficult to get to if you are accessing via a console window... Well done Microsoft, once again you've reaffirmed all the reasons for dropping you in 2005... and gave me some new ones along the way too. ;)<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regards<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br>Iain Buclaw<br><br>*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
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