The plan to get Ubuntu everywhere

Good to see Shuttleworth trying to put ubuntu everywhere. I'll keep chugging alone with the Linux Mint OS tho :D
 
Connected devices are the way of the future. interesting ideas as even to this day, apple mobile devices don't share data between each other in an intelligent way. would be good to see ubuntu there leading innovation.
 
Speaking as a fan boy If they don't do something about unity soon this isn't going to happen and their user base is going to halve.
 
cupofjoe said:
Speaking as a fan boy If they don't do something about unity soon this isn't going to happen and their user base is going to halve.
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Urgh... indeed... perhaps. I just tried it... lasted about 2 hours... went right back to XP on the laptop. Urrrgh.

Perhaps I am just too Windowed to get it ??
 
+1 Ubuntu is user friendly and already implemented in all the libraries in Cape Town.
 
This is not Ubuntu's problem but Linux in general--they are just not laptop friendly: run hotter, cooling fan just blows, cpu throttling is a hit and miss job, battery life sux, etc; until this is fixed once and for-all, in my books it is still a second grade migration. Else Ubuntu is king! [I am not talking about tweaking kernel parameters to get the desired effect--the average joe would careless--and if Ubuntu want to be everywhere, this is first thing to resolve (and be the industry champion at that--get all the critical bugs out of the way and then think of 'dominating' the world. Excellence is always rewarded.
 
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What he said. Unity will be the death of Ubuntu on the desktop.
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+1

I hated it from the first day I saw it - the day that it appeared on my netbook screen. I even started a thread about it. Clearly I'm not alone.

I used Linpus (default OS) when I got my netbooks, then tried Ubuntu 9.04 netbook remix, which was brilliant. Then I upgraded to 9.10 and 10.04, which were getting slowly worse, more resource hungry and uglier (the brown was soooo much better than that hideous purple). After 10.10 (unity), I'd had enough, and loaded Mint, which was ok for a while, but that also got too resource heavy in later versions, so now I'm on Lubuntu, and love it.

Linux desktop users are generally not shy to ditch a crap OS (or UI), and don't want or need idiot proofing interfering with their power-user features, so its no surprise that they're ditching unity like stink. Maybe that UI can work on TVs (although my HTPC runs Windows 7 Enterprise), but if Ubuntu wants to salvage any of it's early adopters, it better replace unity with something much better. And by "better", I don't mean "more idiot proof".

Edit (and off topic): I googled unity sucks, and this was the first result. **** man, those comments had cooldrink spraying out my nose more than once. Read it if you have the time.
 
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+1 on getting Unity right first. What is surprising is that instead of just ditching the desktop environment (I went to KDE :)) many are ditching Ubuntu altogether, mainly for Fedora/Debian/Mint. Canonical had better watch this M$ style arrogance of theirs before they lose all their loyal geeky users. After all it's us that look for/provide workarounds/help on forums, file bug reports, right custom scripts to fix this or that etc.

A big part of what makes Ubuntu so user friendly is the legion of nerds online helping each other out. I hope they don't lose sight of this or their new desired mom & pop user base is in for a very steep learning curve because everyone with actual technical skill has switched to Debian.
 
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So many conflicting stories, its impossible to figure which version is better. I hadn't heard of Lubuntu until 20 seconds ago, am busy trying Ubuntu 11.10 (on a spare PC). Do Fedora and other builds have any advantages/easier to use than Ubuntu 11.10?

Don't think you can load Ubuntu on an iPad2 though?
 
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