Hands on with Ubuntu 14.04

Re:Hands on with Ubuntu 14.04 by Sirenos on Sunday April 20, 2014 @03:01PM (#7618048)

I wish people would think of the shell as just another form of UI that happens to run on text rather than graphical widgets.

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Re:Hands on with Ubuntu 14.04 by serge2k on Sunday April 20, 2014 @04:02PM (#7618281)

and I wish linux wasn't a horribly buggy hard to use desktop OS.

Fortunately my macbook combines a good desktop environment with what I need for work. I just my windows PC for my games and such. Linux can sit on my server where it belongs.

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Re:Hands on with Ubuntu 14.04 by apetrovic on Sunday April 20, 2014 @05:39PM (#7618584)

Yeah, OS X is great.

What, fonts looks like shit when you attach your non-retina external monitor to your shiny retina MacBook Pro? No biggie, just open Terminal or iTerm and type:

    defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 3

You're upset because in Mavericks sleep and display off times are lumped together? The solution is just a few keystrokes away:

    sudo pmset -b sleep 10  # sleep after 10 minutes on battery; use System Preferences to set display off times

Want to see Library folder in Finder?

    chflags nohidden /Users/[username]/Library/

Don't see the point of Dashboard? Terminal-fu to the rescue:

    defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES 
    killall Dock

... etc, etc. Don't get me wrong, my home server runs on Debian, and boy it was an adventure sometimes to install non-blessed packages (read: something less than two years old), but unless you're using an appliance (read: iOS device), every OS have it's share of weird incarnations if you want to do anything, well, advanced.

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Re:Hands on with Ubuntu 14.04 by jlgaddis on Sunday April 20, 2014 @08:17PM (#7619004)

> and I wish linux wasn't a horribly buggy hard to use desktop OS.

Compared to the state of "Linux on the desktop" when I first used it, it is absolutely amazing -- no more manually configuring my NICs using jumpers, no more writing a PPP config file (and chat script!) by hand (from scratch), no more running out to buy a different video card because mine isn't supported.

It's not perfect by any means but it is certainly usable by a majority of the population.

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Re:Hands on with Ubuntu 14.04 by justinreeves on Sunday April 20, 2014 @05:23PM (#7618532)

Just because it's hard for you, doesn't mean it's hard for everyone. Lots of people seem to be using it just fine.

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