Comments on: Setting up Ubuntu 9.10

By: Bruce R

Bruce R — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:36:50 +0000

Although it feels like pointing out that the emperor’s new clothes are imaginary to folk who don’t want to tell the emperor, as per fortress Redmond limitations, I’ve reverted to GRUB, installed msttfcorefonts the old-fashioned way and used APTonCD to obtain Brasero 2.26.1 as a replacement for the still broken Brasero 2.28.2 to make Karmic more useable.
Having made the same changes to LinuxMint-8, which is much better for Home desktop use, I have also been able to use its Update Manager ‘ignore’ to block changes to Brasero etc files.
With Ubuntu’s wooing of corporate users, I hope that I don’t have to switch to another distribution family.

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By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:15:44 +0000

Never mind. After rebooting once this is broken again

By: sghsqg

sghsqg — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:14:49 +0000

Tom you forgot to remove Mono and it’s dependencies.
And even install monono for keeping mono from creeping up on your hard drive and infest it.
Note: this will also remove Tomboy, Gnome Do.
You can find replacements for Gnome Do.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:57:42 +0000

Opening the home folder by typing ‘home’ works for me with GNOME Do 0.8.3.1 and Nautilus 2.28.1.

By: aliencam

aliencam — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:26:53 +0000

Are you sure gnome-do works right for you? I still can’t use it to open the home folder on a few different computers. Instead I just type my username to open the ~/ folder.

By: Reverb

Reverb — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:13:46 +0000

Agreed that it’s crap. From the piss-poor default handling of NTFS partitions/drives to wireless not working on hardware that worked fine with 9.04 to the inability to lock out the user with CTRL-ALT-L without having to configure the OS to do so. If the goal was to make Ubuntu more Mac-like in usability, they’re going the wrong direction.

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By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:36:49 +0000

Thanks! You are correct.

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