May 28, 2011 4 Comments
So, after my crash and burn with Ubuntu’s Unity, I decided to take a go with GNOME3 and OpenSUSE. My first impressions are that there are in fact very little difference between Unity and GNOME Shell.. Read more of this post
May 2, 2011 4 Comments
So Ubuntu 11.04 was finally released this weekend, with the much anticipated (or dreaded) implementation on Unity instead of GNOME as the desktop shell. Well, I was at least anticipating this one, hoping that Unity would be a breath of fresh air in an otherwise slow moving GNOME development (and I did not like how GNOME 3 is looking either, seems like they are heading the same way as KDE4). Well, I was wrong, I absolutely hated Unity! Read more of this post
December 12, 2010 2 Comments
I recently switched from Mandriva back to Ubuntu for various reasons, like performance. I must say, allot of improvements have been made.
For one, the boot (and shut down) is incredible fast. It even boots faster than my last install of Arch Linux (though on a different computer), and shut down is more or less instant. As for more practical uses, there isn’t many changes. The standard theme is the same, and a small hack is needed for moving the window controls.
The software has been overhauled, but still it has a way to go before it is comparable to Synaptic. One annoyances is that they for (reasons unknown) removed aptitude from standard. If you don’t know what aptitude is, it is a replacement for apt-get, with better dependency handling and better search function. However, a quick fix is to just install it:
sudo apt-get install aptitude
In summary, 10.10 improves mostly on performance. Other than that it is mostly a version boost of your software.
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