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- wedges, on 07/23/2008, -29/+84what makes a slick UI so dumb? oh, i guess in order to be a competent computer user you must type everything into a command line. then you can really be 1337.
- cowboy77061, on 07/23/2008, -5/+51OSX is beautiful, but so is Gnome. there is no need to copy Mac imo.
- d4ktu, on 07/23/2008, -9/+48But you can't turn Mac OSX into Hardy!
- GutterMoo, on 07/23/2008, -9/+47Only reason to do this is if you're giving someone a new computer, who happens to be used to Mac OSX. I'm proud of my Gnome and I want it to retain it's Gnome features.
- ratedsar, on 07/23/2008, -0/+33I use the command line in MacOSX and so do my geeky friends.
- theaceoffire, on 07/23/2008, -0/+27Some people like it...
Just like some people like the Zune UI, the 360 UI, the PS3 UI, and Vista's.
^_^ Anywho, more options = happy, right?
Main selling point of linux. - keshavkhera, on 07/23/2008, -1/+25Quite a detailed tutorial, thanks motang
- mrsteveman1, on 07/23/2008, -0/+21People people.......CLI is more efficient for some things, GUI for others.
Example, if i want to delete every file ending in jpg, in bash i can rm *.jpg. In a GUI i would have to sort them by extension, then select them all, then delete them.
Reverse things a bit, if i want to delete specific pictures by looking at a thumbnail of them, you can't do that in the CLI really, but in a GUI its click click click and you have the exact pictures selected.
There are hundreds of examples like that, and this black and white cli vs. gui ***** is ridiculous. - ramenite, on 07/23/2008, -0/+19The only thing I don't like about 99% of the themes, is that they are all knock offs of either OSX or Vista. I'd like to see some more original themes.
All the theming capability of Gnome, etc. and the only thing people come up with are OSX and Vista themes. - dansy, on 07/23/2008, -61/+79nice, but I really don't see why a competent Linux user would ever wanted the dumbed-down Mac UI designed for his grandma ...
- Visual77, on 07/23/2008, -4/+20I just want that damn dock. I love that thing.
- usingpond, on 07/23/2008, -11/+26Ever notice how no one is making tutorials on how to make your Mac look like Windows or Linux?
- ZimbuTheMonkey, on 07/23/2008, -2/+17I have Linux installed as a backup in case Windows fails. I researched it pretty heavily before devoting some hard space to its own partition, and everything I've read on the command line stuff seems to indicate that it's a more efficient way of working if you familiarize yourself with it.
- TomKarpik, on 07/23/2008, -1/+15Seriously? What the ***** is this? Ubuntu for goths?
- agentlame, on 07/23/2008, -1/+14And Mac OS was ripped from Xerox PARC (Which it self was based on a research project from 10 years earlier.)... It's all copy/paste, and has been for thirty years.
That fancy Mac dock? CDE. Hell, even the "shelf style" they added to it in 10.5 first appeared in Project Looking Glass.
And I wont even bother with Window. - ratedsar, on 07/23/2008, -3/+15are you sure? I don't see it being that difficult to install X on a mac.
- Kratos76, on 07/23/2008, -1/+12Digg me down if you must, but
http://gnomestyle.blogspot.com/2007/05/make-ubuntu ... - Totz83, on 07/23/2008, -15/+25Why smear ***** on my silk?
- bjornski, on 07/23/2008, -0/+10Worthless without images.
- ekso, on 07/23/2008, -1/+12There are so much good themes and designs at http://www.gnome-look.org/ that you can get an excellent theme for each month and never get tired, why would you want to change specifically to just one???
- ZimbuTheMonkey, on 07/23/2008, -9/+18Useless?
I'm a Windows user. I just poked around in Linux for fun and I have it installed as a failsafe in case I run into major problems with Vista. What little I saw was anything but "useless".
It has all kinds of productivity and media tools at your disposal. Some of which come pre-installed and the rest you can download from the various software repositories.
I found this out using Linux for only a few hours. Did you even try it before making that comment? - PleaseJustDie, on 07/23/2008, -0/+9Actually, some distributions do sell Linux. Usually if you buy Linux from one of them you also get technical support and possibly some licensed software (in case of Enterprise Redhat). Its just that every distribution that sells it also has a free version for download.
- secleinteer, on 07/23/2008, -10/+19Watch all the Mac fanboys jump on you for this comment.
- bjornski, on 07/23/2008, -0/+8I think you answered your own question.
- celkin, on 07/24/2008, -0/+8He said Hardy, not Gentoo :-/
- skinturtle, on 07/23/2008, -7/+15Yeah I'll just stick to using MS Paint and Notepad for creating all my artwork and websites from now on....line by line...pixel by pixel. It doesn;t make any difference if my clients are screaming at me to get something up and running for them. They can eat my butt!
I mean seriously who needs Photoshop? Those fancy programs are a very convenient piece of eyecandy software intended to make things easier...and that just doesn't make sense to me. I don't want to be that efficient an able to get that much work done in one day..I mean...COME ON!
You people and your easier ways of doing things...you make me laugh! - geoken, on 07/23/2008, -2/+9This is about Ubuntu, not some Apple product. This may be a strange concept to Apple users, but Ubuntu will not try and brick your gear because you had the audacity to try and customize it to your liking.
- brainal, on 07/24/2008, -0/+7Because it's free
- BeatPunchbeef, on 07/23/2008, -1/+8what?
- uahgekido, on 07/23/2008, -0/+7The concept of "selling" doesn't have to involve money changing hands. The term is often used when talking about convincing someone of something else, in this case, convincing someone that Linux is good alternative to other operating systems they've encountered.
Linux *has* to be "sold" these days. Otherwise, people will just continue using whatever they're given rather than finding the right solution for themselves. - Ducttape38, on 07/23/2008, -3/+10Yay google cache:
http://64.233.169.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2co ... - ratedsar, on 07/23/2008, -0/+7I got dugg down because I was right? People run Gnome in fink. Google it. http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t- ...
Fink should also allow you to run everything other than the Linux kernel and modules - Sephr, on 07/23/2008, -0/+7hijacking post to say mirror with images: http://sephr.eligrey.com/i/ubuntu_osx.htm
- Kyrato, on 07/23/2008, -1/+8Yes you can, google it.
- jamesmcm, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6I'm a mac user myself, but I use Ubuntu on my mother's PC and I think you'll find lots of things are actually easier to run in linux than on Mac. OS X lacks a free image creator for example.
Why all the hate anyway? They're both pretty good operating systems tbh. Just use which one you want, I bought a mac recently because I got good student discount and the monitor is awesome and the whole computer is built into the monitor, you couldn't build that yourself so I figured it was a good deal. - Macskeeball, on 07/24/2008, -5/+11Why would you want multiple menu bars? You can only use one at a time, and by only having one menu bar in a fixed location at the edge of the screen, it is an easier target to move your cursor to. Fitt's law.
From the perspective of logic, multiple menu bars being on the screen at that same time simply doesn't make sense. It seems to me that this is simply a case of you and others being *used to* a poorer UI choice and then insisting on it as a result. - tian2992, on 07/24/2008, -1/+7Macskeeball is completly right, it is a matter of usability and ease of use, i don't need menu bars all over when i am using only one app.
- Sephr, on 07/23/2008, -0/+6mirror with images: http://sephr.eligrey.com/i/ubuntu_osx.htm
- salmonmoose, on 07/23/2008, -0/+6Agreed.
That said "Elegant Brit" reformed my opinion on no one in OSS having any taste. - Disease, on 07/23/2008, -2/+8And let the flame wars begin!
- devnullDood, on 07/23/2008, -9/+15This is cool! Now I can look as cool as the Apple nerds! "Hey look bitches, I have OSX on my Sony Laptop, and I have a 2 button mouse! Eat that"
- JonLatane, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6Funny, I've always wished there was a half-decent way for Linux to support a global menubar. The Ubuntu hack mentioned here is crap and WILL break GTK on your next update. And while KDE3 had support for it, it's sadly absent from the otherwise-promising KDE4.
- theaceoffire, on 07/23/2008, -0/+5Maybe if he updates to the next Distro, but security updates don't mess with your theme...
- inactive, on 07/24/2008, -0/+5Sure this is what the tutorial is doing...
- vibrate, on 07/23/2008, -1/+6I wish i could make my windows PC as stable as OS X :(
- neko, on 07/24/2008, -0/+5Someone wrote a tutorial on making gedit work like textmate here:
http://grigio.org/textmate_gedit_few_steps
http://grigio.org/pimp_my_gedit_was_textmate_linux - robotcrawler, on 07/23/2008, -0/+5This is very nicely written article. Great work!
- beingdevious, on 07/23/2008, -4/+983 diggs and the server is down? srs?
- jonnyfatman, on 07/23/2008, -4/+9I imagine the next Ubuntu update you run, probably kills everything right? Anyway, I thought Mark Shuttleworth wanted to be better than Apple, not just the same?
- Visual77, on 07/23/2008, -0/+5@Sparkster185 - I'm running Hardy Heron. I saved the article so I can take a further look at home and figure out how to get just the dock. I don't like the concept of making an OS look identical to another OS, though, so I'd like to keep it feeling like Ubuntu, just with the dock.
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