lifehacker.com — If you've flirted with the idea of switching your desktop operating system to Linux but never took the leap, the time is now. This week's release of Hardy Heron, an Ubuntu release, offers a freer, more productive space for work and play than ever before. We're shining the spotlight on a few great tools and tweaks that make Heron a worthy switch
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holychimpApr 26, 2008
Some hardware is still buggy or plain not working on Ubuntu. I only run Ubuntu in a Parallels VM so everything works OK, but I wouldn't give up on computing just because some driver isn't fully functional in Ubuntu yet. I'd give up on Ubuntu and go back to an OS that works with my hardware, same as I did when I tried out OSX86 last week.
node3Apr 26, 2008
All three of you:I said the *3d cube* was bad, not virtual/multiple desktops. I've used many different pagers, and the 3d cube is the worst. Why the worst? Because the whole point of a pager is to give you an overview of your desktops, and all of them, except the cube (and variations that put your desktops in a loop), actually show you all of your desktops at the same time. Further, when you enter the cube interface, by default it takes you to a view showing... *the desktop you are currently in*, which is almost certainly not the desktop you want to switch to.What's worse, the cube also hinders spatial memory. With regular 2d pagers, you can simply remember "email is on the second from the top left", which works no matter what desktop you're current in. With the cube, you have to either spin it around to find the desktop you want, or you have to keep track of exactly where the desktop you want is in relation to where you currently are.So, compared to all other pagers, the 3d cube is worse because:- The initial view is almost *always* the wrong view- It only shows you a small fraction of the data you *actually need*, even though there's more than enough room for it- It doesn't make use of spatial memoryWhich all means it:- Takes much more user interaction than is necessaryAll for an effect that looks cool, but adds zero usability.I'm not talking about pagers in general, or compiz specifically, but *solely* usability of the 3d cube. If anyone cares to actually point out why it's actually *more* usable, please, chime in. But digging me down just because you think it looks cool doesn't make it more usable,and replying, "dude, you should try multiple desktops" shows you don't even understand what you're replying to.
grason1129Apr 26, 2008
strong with the force is this one
rambleApr 27, 2008
Well 've installed Gentoo countless times, it cannot, not until the software I want has been developed.
jake6730Apr 28, 2008
too bad OS X is not UNIX it is freebsd, and it is a derivative of unix
yesudeepMay 23, 2008
The *real* problem is that the original Word format is a *closed* and proprietary format. Imagine hacking away at what appears to be a series of numbers in hexadecimal and extracting meaning from that. This is why it's difficult for OpenOffice to import Word documents well. If you can't see what goes into your document (lots of things do including viruses, worms, private information), you shouldn't trust the document format in use. My advice: Stop using Word documents.<a class="user" href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sylvester-response.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sylvester-response.h ...</a>The easiest way to get your content across is to use plain text.
blueglueJun 3, 2008
Virtual box, along with parralels virtualpc and any others you can think of DO NOT WORK ON HARDY (YET) it's apparently something todo with the new unbreakable X. I have tried and I am a legit paralles customer and they couldnt help. So dont waste your time plumb for Debian Etch instead (ubuntu without all the fuss of trying make things easy for idiots, possibly MS biggest mistake!)