And, the Unity Dashboard eventually became like that big gift shop at most museums these days … all exits lead through the gift shop. Also, Ubuntu took Nautilus, which had evolved to be one of the best file managers around, and removed some of its great features and made it one of the dumbest file managers around. It is no longer safe to install Ubuntu as your basic operating system then configure the computer “exactly how you want it” (a mantra for Linux users) by swapping around desktops and other functionality. If you want to have some alternative non Ubuntu-approved desktops AND Unity working on one computer, you have to cheat and mess around and trick the computer in to letting you do it. This may be less true now than it was two months ago, last time I checked, but the Evernote clone for Linux, Everpad, would not give me menus in a non-Unity environment because it was designed to be broken when run in anything other than Ubuntu with Unity. For example, there are applications that now only work with Unity. Every now and then Huxley asks me “Daddy, why do you have nine computers?” and I say “Huxley, I only have six computers, those extra monitors are hooked more than one to a computer in some cases.” And he responds “You don’t need nine computers, daddy.” Kids these days…Ĭheck out our new science podcast, Ikonokast.Īnyway, then Unity came along and for this reason and other reasons Ubuntu became more annoying rather than less annoying with each release. I currently use a mac desktop for most things, a Linux laptop as my laptop, and a Linux server for specialized tasks. I became reasonably good (but not high level) at working with Linux on the desktop, spent some effort promoting the operating system, and in short order I stopped using Windows (unless forced to do so) but still using a Mac now and then. And it was good.Īlthough I messed around with a few other versions of Linux, just for fun, I mainly kept installing various versions of Ubuntu, playing around with all of the know desktops but always coming back to gnome. And I installed it and the installation was seamless, and everything worked. I think I tried one other version of Linux after that, and then decided to give up on Linux because that didn’t work for me either.īut just before I gave up, I tried downloading Ubuntu one more time. But the Ubuntu servers were always overloaded and I could never download it. It was a Catch 22 situation.Īt one point I came across a new version of Linux called Ubuntu, and the fact that it was from South Africa interested me because I was at the time doing quit a bit of work in South Africa, so that was cool. In order to get past the installation and configuration - to the extent that the computer would do silly things like print, or hook up to a network - I needed to already know all the stuff that I was confident I would eventually learn, once I got the system set up. I tried SUSE and a couple of other systems, but there was a problem with each one of them. So, I got a spare computer and installed Fedora. Eventually, I wanted to get away from those proprietary operating systems and try out Linux, which by then was a Unix like system that had windowing capabilities but also a powerful command line interface. Then Windows came out and I switched to that, and later used both Windows and Mac operating systems to do my work. Years ago I used a Unix like system for various things and got comfortable with what we now call the “command line.” Then I used DOS, and that was still a command line operating system (but with different commands) and that was pretty good for the late 20th century. I’ve put together a few ideas for what to do after installation in order to make it work better for you. Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr has just been released, and I’m sure you are about to install it. If you have installed Ubuntu 14.10 and want to tweak that, GO HERE. NOTE: This may not be the blog post you are looking for. NEW: Very first look at Ubuntu Linux 15.04 Vivid Vervet Beta Mate Flavor MOST CURRENT INFORMATION WILL BE FOUND HERE: Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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