Ubuntu Gnome Remix 12.10 Arrives For Testing 175
sfcrazy writes "The first ISO (alpha) images of Gnome Shell edition of Ubuntu is now available for download and testing. The Gnome edition of Ubuntu will bring back a lot of hard-core Gnome Shell fans who were looking elsewhere to get the pure Gnome Shell experience. Both Fedora and openSUSE are doing a great job at offering Gnome 3 Shell experience and the arrival of Ubuntu GNOME Remix will give the project the audience it needed."
Re:Wishful thinking (Score:5, Informative)
But I really don't see the Unity disaster being fixed with the GNOME 3 debacle.
I tried Unity when it first got started in 10.10 and I hated it. It was buggy, it was unintuitive, on and on. Then I tried it again in 11.04 and while it was better it still pretty much sucked. On to 11.10 which while not being as good as Gnome 2, was usable. But now that I have been using it for a few months on 12.04, I love it. It's definitely a more productive environment for me than default Gnome 2 was especially with the integrated search. I prefer the approach to multiple monitors, the notification area is vastly improved and very uniform, the dock is solid and does exactly what it needs to do and even sports the per icon right click menu configurability. I'm a big fan of the HUD. Press the alt key and you can just start typing any functionality in your applications menus and the HUD will look until it finds a match. Makes Gimp very easy to use. About the only thing I don't like about Unity is the dash menu. It opens only after a noticable delay, does a very poor job of facilitating application discoverability and the icons are comically large. If it had some kind of list mode and a bit more functionality it might be better. But even that can be easily mitigated with the classic menu panel plugin or the cardapio launcher.
Basically, I thought I'd never like Unity but in 12.04 at least for me it seems solid and deserves a place at the table.
Re:I hate articles like this... (Score:2, Informative)
sudo apt-get install gnome (Score:3, Informative)
I ran that command in Ubuntu Precise a while ago, and, since then, I'm a happy camper.
I don't have much beef against Unity, it's just that on low-spec machines or in a VM, Unity 2D is not snappy enough compared to the "no effects" version of Gnome, which kind of defeats the purpose of having a 2D version.
I am still impressed at how easy it was to switch to Gnome, with no side-effect or additional tweaking required.
Re:Too little too late (Score:4, Informative)
Re:I don't get it (Score:4, Informative)
Apple and MSFT pay millions of dollars to developers to do all those truly shit jobs so those bugs don't end up affecting the end user, whereas the devs for a lot of the stuff in Linux are doing the work gratis so the truly shit jobs aren't done.
As a developer, I can say that I do not consider bugfixes "shit jobs." I look at it as a piece of the complete process. I admit that I am not always fond of doing it, but their is a self-fulfilling feeling of accomplishment when you find and correct a nasty bug. My preferred environment includes a mixture of both new development AND maintenance.
However, I do admit, that there are a bunch of so-called "developers" out there that only want new development and refuse to work on maintenance. They always want to work on cool new gee-whiz features without suffering the hell of working on the crap that they wrote...
There are a plethora of the latter type of "developers" which is why I think we get people adding "gee-whiz" features that no one really asked for while it always takes a long time for someone to clean up the code afterwords. The window managers in linux are perfect examples of this... When KDE4 was released, it was a piece of trash, only recently have people be starting to like it. Gnome 3 will probably be the same way, no one likes it now, but when the good developers start eradicating the nasty bugs, people will begin to open up to it... (Of course I am more interested in LXDE right now, because I care more for functionality than I do for gee-whiz effects.)