Comments on: Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) first impressions

By: kman

kman — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:53:06 +0000

thanks for all facts and info.

By: gnubie

gnubie — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:29:50 +0000

Thanks a lot for the psychocats info. I have learnt a lot from you and been saved from many long nights of fruitless searching

Keep going mate!

By: patrick

patrick — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:57:52 +0000

Huge mistake by the ubuntu community:
uBlog…

we don’t want stuff like that to be installed by default, instead i propose a more decent realtime kernel, stuff that all people will benefit…

i am asking myself about the next version of ubuntu, what other application will pop by default, surely stuff i don’t use, need. just trendy stuff i guess…

By: scrapmetal

scrapmetal — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:29:28 +0000

Having come from, marketing, advertising and a freelance commercial artist, small and corp business. Couldn’t agree more with your logic and reasoning. Fight the good fight, and thanks for all the effort. The sun will still rise tomorrow. If it doesn’t ;-) …well we all are in it big time.

By: thekingofcheap

thekingofcheap — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:09:45 +0000

That wireless driver issue is driving me nuts!!! I can’t upgrade my HP Mini past Jaunty because of it

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:31:06 +0000

Of interest Ryan Paul of Ars Technica has positively reviewed Lucid beta 1, including some good screenshots at
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2010/03/first-look-ubuntu-1004-beta-1-is-looking-good-less-brown.ars

By: me

me — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:44:29 +0000

“I don’t like how you can’t get a new finder window by pressing Cmd-N”.
Yes, you can.
http://noodlescape.com/mac-os-keyboard-shortcuts/

By: Manu

Manu — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:54:26 +0000

Oh, and one more thing!
Many thanks for the Ubuntu tutorials that you’ve hosted in your site. It was very helpful for me back then(at the time when it(psychocats.net/ubuntucat) was psychocats.net/essays ;) )

By: Manu

Manu — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:50:46 +0000

I’ve been using Ubuntu for quite long time and what I’ve observed is that it still lacks that fine detail or polish that Apple softwares have.
Maybe it needs someone who can be hypercritical about every single thing about Ubuntu. Apple certainly has such a guy and he is best known for his catchphrase – “This is shit!”.
Well, regarding your comments about changes to Ubuntu not having a rationale, it might have been possible that the change did have a rationale but was not communicated effectively. In either case, what they did was not good.
And, I certainly do agree that Ubuntu needs a better business model.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:36:01 +0000

Good article.

I had a mid range desktop running OpenSolaris for about 2.5 years. The technology was astounding, but desktop performance was somewhat slow at times (but ZFS/Zones/dtrace/etc were great), plus I didn’t have all the software I needed. I recently bought a new machine (more high end) and put opensolaris on that as a headless server.

Anyways, I took my old desktop and put Ubuntu 9.10 on it. While it’s fast, has tons of applications, and the support is okay, there are so many bugs/etc that I never had with opensolaris.

Things sound issues (I’m getting pulse the eff off my desktop when I have time), randomly loosing keyboard shortcuts/keyboard in general, unresponsive login screens, etc. I probably have to reboot my desktop once a week to fix random problems, even after I restart gnome sessions, kill HUP random daemons, etc.

I think the whole problem is that Ubuntu stays too bleeding edge, and can never stabilize things. For an OS that’s supposed to be pretty far into it’s development cycle, it has too many problems. Everything is always about new features, new desktop candy, etc when the more important features aren’t fixed.

It kind of sucks that I have to sacrifice stability (from say CentOS,etc) because I need newer software, and only mint/fedora/ubuntu really can deliver…

Anyways, nice job.