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Confined to a tiny spit of sand, unable to escape,
But tonight, it's heavy stuff.
The new desktop experience is awful. Like I swapped distros awful.
Then I had a bitch of a time getting my hardware working in #! on my new laptop, so I came crawling back and just changed the desktop environment from whatever atrocity it was to openbox.
But you must bear in mind that I have switched from the dog that is Windows 7 Starter which periodically freezes most frustratingly.
On the other hand, it took FOREVER to install. I am thinking that a move to Arch and awesome might be in order. But it is a huge improvement.
SODOMISE INTOLERANCE
Tide goes in. Tide goes out.
a) How sluggish the UI feels in general.
b) How the window menu isn't always showing. And how I can't maximize Chrome and get my tabs all up there.
c) Task switching, a little bit. I sort of feel like if I stuck with it a while I wouldn't care, but the other two things bother me too much.
There's definitely potential here.
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Look kinda pretty, I guess, kinda?
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Anyway, haters gonna hate. Fact of the matter is, the Gnome 2 environment was what it was (not very inspired, innovative or just plain good), and I have absolutely no problem with the Ubuntu guys taking the front-end of their distribution into their own hands, even if it means I get to deal with Ubuntu Vista for the next six months.
Confined to a tiny spit of sand, unable to escape,
But tonight, it's heavy stuff.
Ubuntu vista would be fine. What we got was Ubuntu ME.
My major beef was that, the last time I used it, getting multiple terminals to launch from the unity bar was an exercise in frustration. Rather than spawning a new process, it would snap you over to the currently running one. I often want multiple terminals open at a time, so that was sort of a deal breaker for me.
That and gnome ran on my netbook, where as the new unity interface crawled on it (despite having a way better layout for the netbook).
I can live with things like that, once you get used to it it's fine (why would this approach be any less viable than the Windows 7 approach, which is to right click and go hunting for the "new instance" option in the menu that pops up?). What I really mind, for example, is the Application lens, which is just a train wreck. Also, they should probably do something with the settings "applets", not really sure the "System settings" item in the shut-down menu is the best place for it. On the other hand, I love that i can just summon the Dash and type in "star" and press enter to get to my "Startup applications" app.
Confined to a tiny spit of sand, unable to escape,
But tonight, it's heavy stuff.
Or would have been if more than one in five W7 users knew about it in the first place, or used it at all.
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Don't get me wrong, I think it's pretty decent overall. Just... eh. At this stage, it sorta feels like change for change's sake.
How do you open an address rather than browsing like a scrub?
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Alternatively, Ctrl+L should do it.
I've tried right-clicking the breadcrumbs. Maybe I am retardo.
Ctrl+L might make it semi-bearable until I get something better happening.
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The problem is it's basically the Windows 7 desktop but worse.
I mean, finally I can hit the super key and get a desktop menu which searches. Which is good! But then it opens sideways...I can't just go up and down with my arrow keys - I also have to go sideways for some reason.
Same problem with the launcher - I can't right click on things and exit programs that are running, or control their windows or anything like that.
Still god awful.
SODOMISE INTOLERANCE
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Seriously. Anyway, my solution going forward has been to use the server distribution of ubuntu and just install my own X and window manager on top of that. That's working out pretty well for me. Also, <3 openbox.
Is there some sort of kernel argument I need to add?
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When this was happening to me it was a bug / nonexistant feature in the driver. Basically when 11.04 came out I was suddenly able to sleep and come back in linux.
...and then suddenly stopped using windows nearly as much. Funny how that works.
Basically if google doesn't help just hope that someone comfortable working on kernel drivers somewhere has the same model you do and the time to fix it. This is actually very likely to happen eventually.
But I haven't had a chance to test it yet.
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Wait really?
Because I've had a consistent problem with my XBMC system where after being asleep for a little while it doesn't resume properly.
You can disable Unity when logging on with GDM, so you should be able to disable it in a settings file somewhere and go back to Ubuntu Classic.
???
I must be doing something wrong. It's not much snappier than normal Unity in my Virtualbox instance at work. The menus at the top of the screen lag in both of them.
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It's so clunky and stick and... it was a nice try, but this is not ready for the big time. It's unclear to me what's wrong with just Gnome... they've done a good job with Gnome in making it pretty great.
Honestly, damn near any popular distro should handle what you're looking for. I don't know what Scribes is, though, so like elliot said, you might try Fedora. It's a perfectly nifty distro.
If you go the mint route, try a program called Alien to convert or install (I forget which) RPMs on debian-based systems.
Oh - how do you get rid of those? I still have them in Ubuntu Classic and they can fuck right off.
So, this didn't work for me on my laptop but it is reported to have worked on a whole mess of systems. This is a huge pain.
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