<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>The amount of time it takes me to configure Xfce on Ubuntu or Arch to suit my need is totally worth it. Its what I've come to expect out of Linux. </div><div><br></div><div>
Unity may be well within the Ubuntu philosophy, but it's not within what I consider to be the Linux philosophy. I mean, if I could move its "dock" to the bottom of the screen and move menu bars back to their windows, it would be tolerable. But there's no way to do this without hacks.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Unity is perfect proof why NIH doesn't work.<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On May 17, 2012, at 12:07 PM, matt <<a href="mailto:ur.matt@gmail.com">ur.matt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>
</div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>One of the advantages of Mint/Cinnamon is that most of the time, the normal laptop functionality stuff 'just works'. Hibernation, sleeping while on battery, what-happens-when-i-close-the-lid, media keys, all that jazz. I use XFCE on my desktop and love it, but getting all that shit to work is a PITA.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Cameron Kilgore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ghostfreeman@gmail.com" target="_blank">ghostfreeman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I used unity for the better part of 10 minutes and went back to Xfce.<br>
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Sent from my iPad<br>
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On May 15, 2012, at 1:16 PM, William Bagwell <<a href="mailto:rb211@tds.net">rb211@tds.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tuesday 15 May 2012, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:<br>
>> snip (21 point rant)<br>
>> Any help and advice is appreciated.<br>
><br>
> Can offer nothing more than condolances. What you so eloquently describe<br>
> mirrors my brief experience with KDE 4.X and explains why I am still<br>
> using a *four year old* distro as my daily desktop.<br>
><br>
> Waiting for some kind soul to port Trinity to Mandriva so I can upgrade...<br>
> --<br>
> William<br>
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