Re: less maladjusted

[Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx]

Rafe, I like Unity much better than when I first met it, and by Ubuntu
11.10 I switched to it gradually.


Now, however, my current 12.04 setup, which was an upgrade of 10.04
rather than a clean install, has developed some malfunctions with
respect to the launchers that I can't seem to fix -- or find discussed
online. I have a clean installation on my netbook that I had not added
the more recent 12.04 updates to (I was about to travel and didn't want
to trash anything on that), but I'll proceed with the 12.04 updates now
and see if things remain good or behave like my main Ubuntu box.


Dosemu remains extremely stable. I do hate having to fight Ubuntu for
the Super (Win) key, and some things have become harder to tweak, but
it's brought other features (Quicklists for Launchers, and the message
indicator) that I'd hate to give up. It took a little while to figure
out how to get a custom icon to work with my XyWrite launcher. I would
like a "minimize on click" function added to the launchers, and have
found the patch that adds that helpful. And did I say I hate having to
fight for the Super key? That said, I'm basically a satisfied nonpaying
customer.


I hate Gnome 3, and don't want to go back to the limitations of Gnome 2.
Mint is good for what it is, but I like Unity better. Should Unity get
too weird, I'd probably see what I can do with LXDE or XFCE -- I've used
both desktops before and liked them well enough.


Paul


On 05/20/2012 02:33 PM, Raphael wrote:
> Can't help it, but when I see these OT threads about the horrors of
> malware -- as well as the demise of DOS support in the MS kingdom -- I
> have to pipe up about Linux. The latest version of Ubuntu, Precise
> Pangolin, is at the same time 1) very easy to use out of the box and
> 2) potentially extraordinarily powerful and with the right tools, not
> at all difficult to configure. I just posted a little entry about it
> on my blog (they've got it up on ubuntu-news.net!) and it contains a
> glancing reference to XyWrite
>
>
> http://ray-field.com/content/blog/2012/05/18/ubuntus-unity-is-a-terminal-case
>
>
>
> & as bears repeating, malware/virus is a non-issue and dosemu support
> shows not the least sign of eroding. Is it for everyone? Well,
> actually, it is. One of these days I'm going to put together a page
> about running XyWrite under Linux -- but for the time being, Edward
> Mendelson's WordPerfect for DOS under Linux will get you started.
>
>
> Paul Lagasse, how do you like Unity?
>
> -rafe