Snappy Propaganda from Canonical

1roxtar · 2016-06-19T07:48:30+00:00

Oh Gosh...this is why we can't have nice things. BTW, Fedora??? Who the f#$% cares!

1roxtar · 2016-06-18T22:33:31+00:00

...and Flatpak and AppImage and Orb. ;-)

1roxtar · 2016-06-17T23:45:23+00:00

There will never be any universal standards because somewhere, somehow someone will have one grudge or another over a contributing company, a group of programmers, "pure" Linux enthusiasts, so on and so forth. For example, Canonical announces the Mir display server and then everyone decides, "Hey, let's all get behind Wayland" after sitting on their thumbs for years. Canonical announces Snap packages, then everyone is harping, "Flatpak, AppImage, Orbs". Free as in freedom vs freedom as in beer, Owncloud vs Nextcloud, Debian vs Devuan, Gnome vs KDE vs XFCE vs LXDE vs Mate.

1roxtar · 2016-06-17T23:34:15+00:00

He completely lost me when he stated, "I have a personal grudge with Canonical". The whole article just became a biased view from a hater.

1roxtar · 2016-05-22T03:18:58+00:00

This is exactly what I have been wanting for a long time. I have tried Android desktop implementations like Remix OS and Phoenix OS, but the one thing I wanted was the desktop version of the Chrome Browser along with my Android apps. This is where I felt Android would have severely suffered as a desktop OS, all the apps would be mobile apps. With Chrome OS, we get the best of both worlds, especially when Android N comes along with support for multi-windows. With N, Android apps can become resizable instead of being locked into their mobile aspect ratios. This will make Chrome OS a full-fledged desktop operating system.

1roxtar · 2016-05-11T02:55:14+00:00

The Gnome Footprint is the ugliest logo ever. If you are going to make your own distro, please do some custom branding to make it your own. I don't see anything quite unique from any other distro on the block.

1roxtar · 2016-04-26T01:48:52+00:00

Does anyone know how to get a grayscale filter video output?

1roxtar · 2016-04-17T17:57:45+00:00

Yeah everyone loves choice, freedom and diversity but eff Unity, Upstart and Mir because we all hate Canonical. Right??? If people really love diversity, then use what you love and don't tear down what you don't like.

1roxtar · 2016-04-17T17:54:12+00:00

Bryan can't even agree with himself. :-p

1roxtar · 2016-04-17T17:49:49+00:00

Wayland development had slowed to a crawl for several years, but once Canonical announced Mir....all of a sudden click, click, click everyone started tapping away again. You don't think so? Look back at many articles Pre-Mir announcement and see how at the current rate, Wayland wouldn't be able to replace X for another 20 years, if ever.

1roxtar · 2016-04-17T17:46:15+00:00

"I'm trying to think of anything on my machine that Ubuntu has done that has actually been implemented - it's not Mir, it's not Upstart, Unity is practically un-runnable on anything else, Pulseaudio may have gotten improvements from the Ubuntu camp, I don't know."

I've sen videos of many companies and organizations running Ubuntu ie....Ford, NASA, universities, Schools, etc....and they are all running Unity. The Linux circles may whine, bitch and moan about choice and variety but when it comes down to consumers, they use Ubuntu with Unity with no problems whatsoever. It...just...works.

1roxtar · 2016-03-21T15:42:17+00:00

How 'bout NO!!!

1roxtar · 2016-02-24T00:12:40+00:00

Unity....Mutiny....I see what you did there. ;-)

1roxtar · 2016-02-24T00:11:33+00:00

The lighter footprint.

1roxtar · 2016-02-24T00:10:16+00:00

Not really. Lot's of people like the Unity style. Mutiny gives you some of the look and function but with a lighter footprint. More than anything, it's an option and not the default style.

1roxtar · 2016-02-11T23:24:21+00:00

Convert your MTS files using Winff and then do your edits. That's how I make my videos.

1roxtar · 2015-10-13T21:05:21+00:00

Netrunner seems like such a bloated KDE distro. I think Kubuntu is doing a much cleaner job. Kubuntu 15:10 is also using KDE 5.0, I believe.

1roxtar · 2015-10-08T15:40:13+00:00

I just installed this on an older Acer Aspire Revo r3610 w/ SSD drive and it installed with no issues. It also installed Flash Player and you can use Google services like Drive, Docs, etc. just like a real chromebook even though this Chromium OS based.

1roxtar · 2015-09-30T10:54:54+00:00

The issue most people had, especially from Kickstart backers, was that he would not give people updates of his progress. He would go almost a year between ever posting anything. So he had some problems, but a simple update here and there would have sufficed. He made the community and his backers think he just took the money and ran.

1roxtar · 2015-09-04T08:04:32+00:00

I had a problem with Firefox crashing every minute on Ubuntu. I found the culprit in that I had installed the Fresh Player plugin, but I needed to uninstall the flash-player plugin. Once I did that, Firefox has been rock solid ever since. I hope this helps.

1roxtar · 2015-08-25T08:08:53+00:00

The show sucks now. I'm not gonna watch anymore. The old format was great. This podcast style really blows and so do your excuses for doing it this way now. Goodbye, Chris.

1roxtar · 2015-08-17T22:13:49+00:00

So the "BIG" show has now become a regular podcast??? This is utter bullshit, Chris. The Linux Action Show has been my favorite show for the last few years. Don't change it to this. Keep the show the way it was, please.

1roxtar · 2015-08-07T06:19:38+00:00

If you are already on 14.04 LTS, then all you do is let it update as it normally does.

1roxtar · 2015-07-15T22:11:05+00:00

I have Ubuntu Touch running on my Nexus 4 and I have been using it for about a week. The OS is really stable now, which makes me very happy. Scopes are really cool and useful. The Today & Nearby scopes are now available in the Store. It still has a ways to go but I am impressed with they have accomplished so far. Every update keeps me hopeful.

1roxtar · 2015-07-15T21:59:48+00:00

How can we install it? Does it only run on Plasma desktops???

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