Comments on: Curse the appearing ghost menus

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:13:25 +0000

If you understand a Mac, a Mac is a good system to use for many things. However, you can’t go back to using your old Mac. Somewhere along the iMac lineage there is a hardware shift (talking desktops here) that is required to run the current system (staring with Lion) . I don’t know the laptop hardware situation.

Which reminds me: If anyone out there has an old iMac or other mac and lives in the twin cities, I know somebody who can put Linux on it and use it in a classroom for a highly targeted science class thingie.

(Or an old PC for that matter, but you are probably using the old PC.)

By: Ian Kemmish

Ian Kemmish — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:57:50 +0000

This is where the cynic points out that in the GNU world of paid-for support, every bug, inefficiency, infelicity or inadequately documented feature is a potential profit centre….

By: Dunc

Dunc — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:18:26 +0000

I sometimes think that there’s a whole generation of UI designers who have decided to deliberately break every single established rule of good UI design… Presumably just because doing things the right way is stuffy and old-fashioned.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 05:28:07 +0000

Oy vey! So many of my tools were growing annoyingly outdated so I ran apt-get dist-upgrade and I’m still crying. GNOME had made the journey to hell long ago, but KDE was quite usable and tolerably bloated in versions 2 and 3. KDE4 sucks shit as GUIs go and attempts to out-bloat Winduhs. It’s almost enough to drive me back to using a Mac. I may have to put some serious effort into looking at xfce and other GUIs.

By: gruebait

gruebait — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:27:49 +0000

This is the kind of ‘feature’ that caused me to move to Mint 12, where I’m using Gnome 3, only with the “Classic” theme selected at install – very much like Gnome 2. Next Mint install will use “Mate”, the Gnome 2 clone that has been under developement.