Two Ubuntu Things

[zvi]

the Power User's Guide to Unity aggregates a LOT of tutorials. It makes me feel more hopeful, although I think I may not install 11.04 until, like, July

Ubuntu UK Podcast by the UK Loco is a lively and amusing discussion by people who dance on the line between power users and developers. They are in mid-season 3, and I highly recommend them.

Comments

[facetofcathy]

Ah, well timed. I'm going to have a good look at that first link.

I'm cautiously optimistic about Unity, but I can't type the word without hearing those Word From Unity bits that used to be on TV.

I want Libre Office and to try the new Music player--the one I've been using is buggy--so I might be brave and try 11.04 right away. I have one panel app I don't want to lose though. The tough decision will be 11.11, when you won't be able to revert to Gnome if you want to.

I am not going to be surprised if my nVidia graphics (integrated, not on a video card) will not quite be up to the task for much longer. Dammit, why won't my $350 computer last forever?

[zvi]

I think Mint may be planning to keep a Gnome 2 interface, even for 11.11? Also, Xubuntu supports gnome panel applets, if you end up not being able to live without.

I just have a gigantic eyeroll about the Unity sturm-und-drang, because a lot of the changes are pioneered/mirrored/different-implementation-for-similar-result in Gnome 3, and I don't think Gnome 2.x support is long for this world, at least not from Gnome.

I'm just waiting because beta 2 was so buggy, I'm pretty sure that the actual release is going to find a lot of bugs, and I want to have other people report and patch before I get into it.

[facetofcathy]

And it is of course 11.10. I'm so good at numbers.

I really hesitate to move off the really simple, few clicks to update, Ubuntu track. I mostly like everything it has to offer. My panel app is the copy and paste special character pallet, but I expect something will be out there accessible from the Unity interface somehow, it's just way too handy.

I've heard a lot about the beta bugs this go, so I might wait a couple of weeks.

I expect that the move away from Unity is politics of some kind, and I stay away from all news of that in the tech world. Fandom Wank provides enough of that sort of thing.

I don't mind the look of Unity from some of the pages on your first link, but it's mostly not really important to me. I don't do much beyond play music and use Firefox, so I'm happy with something that works. If it draws people into using Ubuntu, I figure that's good, and maybe nVidia and a Logitech will start making Linux drivers for their stuff.

[dragonwolf]

You can install LibreOffice on current versions of Ubuntu. Here's the tutorial I used.

Banshee (the default player last I checked) is also in the repos for 10.10, at least (not sure about previous Ubuntu versions). I've been using it for a while, too, and it's worked pretty well.

[vlion]

What's the 'word on the street' about Unity stability? Brief looking around suggested that it was a bit, uh, undercooked.