[ale] I really incredibly exponentially hate ubuntu unity

Wed May 16 09:55:33 EDT 2012

SWEET!!!!!

Excellent link for non-microsoft infected laptops. System76 is a bit thin
on options and this store looks very promising.

I LOVE my Lenovo Thinkpad W520 that is own by my employer. Totally spoiled
rotten on 4 cores and 16GB RAM in a laptop. As I usually have 20-50 tabs
open in firefox plus 4-10 gnome-terminals each with 2-10 tabs open and
multiple ssh tunnels and (gag spit choke) Lotus Notes eating up my system,
and I STILL have horsepower to launch a vm running win7 so I can download
the latest virus, er, I mean "update".

Avadirect looks like they have some equivalent laptops. And they build some
total monsters! One laptop has an option for a dual NVIDIA graphics card
that requires/includes a second power brick!!!

OMFG!!!! It's a LAPTOP!

can you tell I'm jazzed :-)

plus up to 32GB RAM and x3 SATA drives I can easily price this well into
the total fantasy land of laptops.

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Pablo Ordonez <pablo.f.ordonez at gmail.com>wrote:

> I use Ubuntu as my main work tool. I try to make my life as simple as I
> can, so 99% of my work time is shared among emacs, a terminal, and a
> browser(chromium). I do not use Unity that much; however, I find HUD very
> clever and useful to find shortcuts in the different modes in emacs. I know
> that my work can be done by any distribution, so why I use Ubuntu?
>
> Because they are very clear about what they want. They are trying to reach
> the desktop, laptop market,  and they NAME PUBLICLY  who are the
> Monopolistic contenders.
>
> Today I bought a decent laptop at http://www.avadirect.com  without
> paying Microsoft tax.  That happened no because of slack, mint, fedora
> etc.. ( although they can install those distributions).
>
> I do not (super_hyper_ultra)-hate Red Hat, Fedora, Slack. I guess, they
> are wonderful distributions and I'm glad some people enjoy them.  I think
> this kind of threads does not help to Linux or Linux community. Pls code
> more and talk less to improve your favorite distribution.
>
> Pablo :)
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 05/15/2012 11:10 PM, rhia wrote:
>> > I like top post Tuesday as well.
>> > And I really like Enlightenment as well, too.
>> > Ron, I feel your pain, which is why Ubuntu et al annoy me almost, but
>> > not quite, as much as the abomination from Redmond.
>> > I ran Slackware with a hybridized bastardized gnome/KDE/Enlightenment
>> > desktop setup for years and then switched over to Gentoo with a
>> > hybridized bastardized gnome/KDE/Enlightenment desktop setup.
>> > Yes, it took a while to work the bugs out.
>> > No, it's not something I would install on my parents' systems.
>> > However; once tweaked, and fiddled with, and tweaked some more, I have a
>> > system (and backup configs) that suits me and I can transport to new
>> > hardware or reinstall whenever needed. To me, that ability (to
>> > customize, tweak, fiddle with, etc) is why I prefer running the much
>> > more finicky? persnickety? Gentoo on my own systems. (Sadly, it's also
>> > why I dislike the Windows/Apple wannabes, but that might well start a
>> > distro war I'm not wanting to battle here and now.)
>> >
>> > ----
>> > rhia
>> IMHO, the advantage of Linux is one word: choice. If you do not like the
>> default you can install and tweak so that you have a system that suits
>> your needs. You can hate a DE but you can change it, often fairly
>> easily. Try this with M$ or Apple, you can only do the tweaks they allow.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 16:00 -0400, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> >> It's top post Tuesday....
>> >>
>> >> Enlightenment.  Build it from source.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 05/15/2012 01:34 PM, Sparr wrote:
>> >>> The exceptionally premature adoption of kde 4.1 by most distros is
>> what
>> >>> drove me to convert from kde to gnome a few years ago. Unity has
>> driven
>> >>> me back to kde and I'm almost as happy with the latest kde as I was
>> >>> prior to 4.0
>> >>>
>> >>> On May 15, 2012 1:16 PM, "William Bagwell"<rb211 at tds.net
>> >>> <mailto:rb211 at tds.net>>  wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>      On Tuesday 15 May 2012, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>> >>>       >snip (21 point rant)
>> >>>       >  Any help and advice is appreciated.
>> >>>
>> >>>      Can offer nothing more than condolances. What you so eloquently
>> describe
>> >>>      mirrors my brief experience with KDE 4.X and explains why I am
>> still
>> >>>      using a *four year old* distro as my daily desktop.
>> >>>
>> >>>      Waiting for some kind soul to port Trinity to Mandriva so I can
>> >>>      upgrade...
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