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towy71 · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:57 pm Post subject:

much in the way that "yachting is a hole in the water into which you pour money" a car is a pit in the road Wink

Whereas a desktop one builds an affinity to Rolling Eyes

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Ram · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:53 pm Post subject:

guy · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:23 pm Post subject:

I read somewhere that Linus Torvalds so loved GNOME 3 and Unity that he replaced his old GNOME 2 with xfce.

And I've known people hack rubbish bits off their car and weld properly-designed bits back on. The supersonic car had steering on its rear wheels only - they prototyped the idea on an old Mini first.

Funnily enough, I've known people do similar things to car analogies.
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PCNetSpec · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 1:45 am Post subject:

Didn't Linus let fly some equally venomous rants about Gnome just before switching to it when KDE4 came out ? .. maybe he's just change averse, which seems odd if he's going to keep changing his desktop environment.
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wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 8:48 pm Post subject:

I like Unity immensely. Razz

Funnily enough, after 20 odd years years of driving estate cars, I now drive a convertible.
2 reasons-
1. The kids grew up and left home, so for the two of us, it has a huge boot with the roof up, and is enjoyable in the current weather with the roof down.
2. As a director, I now get to choose what company car I drive Smile

As with Linux, there are many makes and models to choose from, whereas Windows and Mac users only have a choice of accessories.
(Can anyone tell me why the "ribbon" and the equally rubbish windows 7 menu system are the only choice?).

If you have a Ubuntu server, what is the point of running a GUI?
Our Ubuntu servers at work are all managed with a combination of the command line and the excellent Webmin.

Nobody forces you to use any Linux distro, if you don't like it, try asking for your money back Smile

p.s. We have run Linux desktops for our service clerks for the last 4 years. they recently moved from Ubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity, and they love it.
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Rhakios · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:16 am Post subject:

wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 9:22 pm Post subject:

I suppose that I should have said "the only choice that Microsoft offers"
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Rhakios · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:16 pm Post subject:

I see someone has forked Gnome2, calling it Mate, for Arch Linux anyway. Linky to the forum announcement. I can't get to the project page, presumably it's been inundated with hits.
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