[OT] On upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10

[Peter Alcibiades]

Two solutions really.  If you are set on staying with Ubuntu, install
Cinammon.  I wouldn't for two reasons, one being the crazed desire to
dictate what other people do with their desktops, the other being the crazed
six month rlease cycle.  But, if staying with Ubuntu, probably Cinammon.

I never have understood the cult of Ubuntu.  I know lots of people who rave
about it, but none of them are using it as their only or main workhorse. 
Its very striking - you hear someone telling you enthusiastically how
wonderful Unity or Gnome 3 is, and it turns out he has played with it a few
times and his main workstation is Windows 7.

One hears similar enthusiasm about Windows 8 by people who never seem to
have seriously tried using that, and only that, for a month.

The second and robust long term solution is go to Debian.  This is the best
and the permanent solution, its completely stable and conservative in its
release cycle and what you install is entirely up to you.  Upgrades when
they happen will be painless.  At this point, install 'wheezy', the testing
flavor.  But even that is not going to be fully up to date - you'll get xfce
4.8, and for desktop thumbnails you need 4.10.  For example.

Properly tested two to three year release cycle.  Complete developer
agnosticism about which desktop is right for me.  Its a hard combination to
beat.  Yes, the thing that is coming towards my guys is at some point gnome
3 is going to result from a distribution upgrade.  Fine, but its a year or
two away, and by then we will either go to xfce and they won't notice, or
maybe Gnome will have recovered its senses.

Seems as doubtful as Windows 8 recovering its senses.  I guess that is the
consolation with Linux, when you fire up that appalling mess on the Windows
8 desktop and realize that its the OS developer that is determined to do
this to everyone and there is no other desktop available!  At least with
Linux this sort of insanity is confined to one desktop team, and you can
just pick a different one from people who have both oars in the water.

Peter


Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote
> If you. like me, have a "thing" about Avant Window Navigator you may be
> seriously fed-ip un upgrading to 12.10 to find that Mr Slugworth has
> removed
> the possibility of installing it, and, even more mephistophelian, made
> sure
> it gets removed on system upgrade.
> 
> After a dark night of the soul, I found this:
> 
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/203362/how-can-i-install-avant-window-navigator-in-12-10/203575#203575
> 
> Richmond.





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