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- cornflakepirate, on 02/02/2008, -12/+101To those above who cry "boring" - maybe it doesn't look too shiny, but it is very usable; it might be boring and vanilla but it's not ugly or garish. (see also: Vista, where every single window border and widget is screaming at you "Look at me, I'm translucent, whee!!") Anyway it's quite easy to change the theme if you don't like it.
I fail to see how the international clock isn't practical. Perhaps not useful for home users but certainly handy for businesses.
- veggieryan, on 02/02/2008, -24/+96please dear god can we loose the brown? its hard enough to get people to try it without that dirt color scheme. please. take a chance on a tasteful blue or green or something. people look at brown and think: 1985. Can you even buy a brown car these days?
- electroktan, on 02/02/2008, -6/+57Hardy Heron, you'll always be Hungry Hippo in my book.
- j2002, on 02/02/2008, -0/+47"I" comes after "H" not "G"
- Vinvin, on 02/02/2008, -3/+45It's funny how Ubuntu does seem to follow Xubuntu in its footsteps: first Transmission, then Brasero... ;-)
- moocow1452, on 02/02/2008, -0/+41System/Preferences/Appearance/Glossy
- credence, on 02/02/2008, -1/+38I liked the part where you made an unsupported statement.
- jo42, on 02/02/2008, -16/+52> Hardy Heron
I read somewhere that the version after this one will be called "Gracious Goatse". - DontThinkSo, on 02/02/2008, -2/+30What an insightful, informative comment.
- drakethegreat, on 02/02/2008, -1/+28Maybe Ignorant Idiot would be more fitting?
- stutimandal, on 02/02/2008, -7/+34All those bashing Linux....
Notice that the latest build is running on only 512 MB Ram with 40% usage. (latest Mac or Vista need 2 GB minimum). - Farik, on 02/02/2008, -6/+32Lose, for the gods' sake, lose!
- digitalarcanum, on 02/02/2008, -1/+27dug for: "Look at me, I'm translucent, whee!!"
- TeacherOfHeroes, on 02/02/2008, -0/+26I don't think that the brown looks *that* bad (not that I use it), but the problem is that Ubuntu is being aimed at new users. New users
a) don't know that they can change it
b) don't know how to change it
c) don't have any criteria other than looks by which to judge the OS. I wouldn't be surprised if often a connection is made between seeing that it looks great and assuming that it works great.
d) will remember first impressions
e) can be very critical of changes/differences. The smallest thing can throw newbie users off. This seems to be rocking the boar needlessly. - inactive, on 02/02/2008, -1/+27Hey, it's not just business users. I have close family in Germany and the US, as well as friends in Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and Greece; most of those are only one hour or two hours from GMT but it's still nice to have a visual indicator.
- digitalarcanum, on 02/02/2008, -1/+26vista requires 1GB of ram.. but still, point duly noted. you shouldn't need a gig of ram to have a stable and fast system and linux always seems to deliver.
- drewcoll, on 02/02/2008, -2/+26Not speaking for the Linux community, or my hopes for Linux, but...
Linux may 'copy' features from Mac and Microsoft, but let them develop the ideas shiny features and we can implement them later and better. They're the ones with billions of dollars, they should be ahead.
Linux's draw to me is the thoughtful work that is done on it. It runs twice as fast as any operating system I've tried on the same resources, and it is the most customizable. It combines features from both of the major OS'es so you can pick and choose. The community is not too prideful to admit a mistake, and is an enormous resource when the end-user makes a mistake. Plus there's that price tag.
Any special and unique features are icing on the cake. (DRM, Tons of Niche/Free Software, Compiz) - Protoss, on 02/02/2008, -1/+25Epic Fail.
- motang, on 02/02/2008, -0/+24Can you blame them, Transmission and Brasero are really good software. I have been using both of them from a long time and haven't really seen anything bad with either of them.
- Rawler, on 02/02/2008, -0/+23i am liking pulse audio
- LingNoi, on 02/02/2008, -1/+23If you think Ubuntu is ugly then just change the theme. No one is FORCING you to use the default. www.gnome-look.org and www.kde-look.org both host numerous different themes.
- andycr512, on 02/02/2008, -4/+25Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I wouldn't put much faith in a beholder who attacks someone's person for no reason.
- drdepoy, on 02/02/2008, -0/+20thats nice and all, but what im really hoping is that they fix suspend mode.
- Daggity, on 02/02/2008, -1/+17Never used Compiz Fusion? :/
- andycr512, on 02/02/2008, -0/+161. I love how you used clear, specific examples.
2. Right, a barely functional but bugtested version of KDE (no offense, KDE folks, but I doubt you would argue that KDE isn't yet fully there at version 4) blows a years-stable, fully tested version of GNOME away.
3. They aren't bad at all; in fact, I like them better than I like XP's fonts. - GRAVEWiSH, on 02/02/2008, -0/+16dont ***** read it then!
- stoanhart, on 02/02/2008, -6/+21I ***** hate blue. Brown looks awesome. Don't like it, change it.
- TeacherOfHeroes, on 02/02/2008, -0/+15I think it's neat that you don't know the correct ordering of our alphabet :P
The one that started with 'G' was the 7.10 release - renegadeafk, on 02/02/2008, -1/+16Yeah Luna looks more like a fisher-price work bench
- Farik, on 02/02/2008, -2/+17Seeing that you've only had an account since 11 January 2008 I'm going to assume you haven't been around here much longer than that, this is digg and this is the way it always has and always will be. Move on to one of the multiple other social media sites if you don't like it, comments like yours are completely pointless here.
- digitalarcanum, on 02/02/2008, -0/+14kubuntu. Now STFU.
- lilSears, on 02/02/2008, -0/+14I'm guessing somewhere around April (hence the 4), 08
- andycr512, on 02/02/2008, -0/+14Just disable the Linux section in your profile, as I have done with the celebrity section.
- clubdirthill002, on 02/02/2008, -5/+18Wow, amazing screenshots. Most definitely better than Vista. (Although that isn't very hard to do.)
- jdhore1, on 02/02/2008, -0/+13Not true, k3b uses a bunch of commandline tools (cdrecord, wodim among others) and it's got a ton of features, excellent stability, great integration and it has excellent error handling. Which is probably why i use it on my GNOME systems.
- andycr512, on 02/02/2008, -3/+16Note that Vista says it only requires 1GB - however, most who run it with that little will tell you how slow it is. I imagine the same is true of OS X.
- LingNoi, on 02/02/2008, -0/+13Same here. Currently I just have the clock on my girlfriends time,. This would be better.
- andycr512, on 02/02/2008, -1/+131. GNOME is more feature-rich than XP ever was.
2. I use a computer with 256 megs of ram running XP on occasion. It's slower than dirt - you can watch windows dissolve down, and Ubuntu is far, far faster on it - pretty much normal feeling, actually.
3. So what does that prove? That Microsoft is optimistic in their numbers, while Ubuntu is a bit over-honest? - Phocion55, on 02/02/2008, -1/+13What's your take on Aero vs. Compiz Fusion? Just curious.
- vibrokatana, on 02/02/2008, -1/+12Want to elaborate? Oh wait, your only a troll living in his mother's basement.
- CrazyPuh, on 02/02/2008, -1/+12Very impressive.
Now what makes you think that the fact that Ubuntu starts using PulseAudio means that this is something new in Linux? If you check the PulseAudio website you can see that the project goes far back to 2004. - directrix13, on 02/02/2008, -0/+11Or just use Kubuntu and learn to change your theme.
- srg13, on 02/02/2008, -0/+10I don't really agree, but still - I wouldn't use it as my GTK theme.
They haven't reached the UI freeze yet though. - jordn, on 02/02/2008, -2/+12Im sorry, but Leopard would run like ass on 512MB RAM.
- Protoss, on 02/02/2008, -0/+10Uncheck Politics, and *nix then stop bitching.
- ispeakasian, on 02/02/2008, -0/+10I just got Ubuntu 7.10 on my 10 year old Toshiba Protege... and its almost time to update...
- Mudhoney, on 02/02/2008, -2/+12Linux distros, even Ubuntu don't use as much memory as OS X. However, 2GB to run Leopard is false. I'm running it on 1GB just fine right now.
- mercurysquad, on 02/02/2008, -0/+10If your gf is in another time zone, I feel for ya ..
- kystorms, on 02/02/2008, -0/+10I cant wait for this one to come out, I am a Ubuntu addict, and PROUD of it, brown coloring and all.......
:-) - cornflakepirate, on 02/02/2008, -0/+10A person's brain
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