Ubuntu has changed a lot in recent years, it too has had a radical interface redesign. The latest implementation of it's "Unity" desktop is functional but also very tablet-centric. It has an apple-esque panel, or toolbar, at the top of the screen and a column of quick launch icons along the left side of the screen. Unity is unique to Ubuntu, and is also graphically resource hungry.
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Windows 8 beta, the tiles interface sucks
by moshe ini downloaded and installed windows 8 beta on a six year old laptop to check it out.
i found out i don't like the new graphical tiles interface at all.
maybe i am just stuck in the old windows format and don't like change.
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Windows 8 beta, the tiles interface sucks
by moshe ini downloaded and installed windows 8 beta on a six year old laptop to check it out.
i found out i don't like the new graphical tiles interface at all.
maybe i am just stuck in the old windows format and don't like change.
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cuckoo in the nest
That's news to me. It might be a national or regional issue, for instance software patents don't exist in the U.K. (and the rest of Europe I think) so we wouldn't be penalised. I suspect you could circumvent the problem by downloading something like VLC media player or Handbrake (up to version 0.9.2) which include the required codecs for DVD playback.
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Windows 8 beta, the tiles interface sucks
by moshe ini downloaded and installed windows 8 beta on a six year old laptop to check it out.
i found out i don't like the new graphical tiles interface at all.
maybe i am just stuck in the old windows format and don't like change.
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cuckoo in the nest
Smart move BTS, LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice and is very alike, the Linux community got jumpy when Sun was sold and switched to Libre. We weren't sure how committed to open source Oracle were going to be. OO is still a good suite though.
Dgp & Violia, I'm pretty much the same. I switched to Win 2000 when I built my Athlon 2400XP system, so I could have USB2.
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New DVD "Become Jehovah's Friend"
by treadnh2o inhey peeps,.
it's been a long while since i've posted (i am completely out - wife and kids still in) but thought you might this interesting.. they came home from the district convention yesterday with the new dvd intended for kids.
they popped it in right away and this is what happens:.
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cuckoo in the nest
If you want it to go viral, get it posted on 4Chan. Those guys will tear it to pieces.
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New DVD "Become Jehovah's Friend"
by treadnh2o inhey peeps,.
it's been a long while since i've posted (i am completely out - wife and kids still in) but thought you might this interesting.. they came home from the district convention yesterday with the new dvd intended for kids.
they popped it in right away and this is what happens:.
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cuckoo in the nest
That's brilliant Slidin', I'm thinking Russel Howard's Good News, what do you think?
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Windows 8 beta, the tiles interface sucks
by moshe ini downloaded and installed windows 8 beta on a six year old laptop to check it out.
i found out i don't like the new graphical tiles interface at all.
maybe i am just stuck in the old windows format and don't like change.
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cuckoo in the nest
The last version of Windoze I liked was 2000, it just worked and managed to stay out of the way; most of the time you didn't know it was there which is how a good operating system should be. It's only an interface between your choice of hardware and your choice of software. Now newer iterations of Windoze want to do EVERYTHING whether you need it to or not. I eventually got used to XP and Win7, because I had to for clients' machines as much as anything, but I can't say I ever enjoyed the process.
SadElder, have you ever tried LibreOffice? It's an open source office suite that's file compatible with MS Office (doc & docx etc.) but the interface is much more like Office 2003 than 2007 onwards.
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New DVD "Become Jehovah's Friend"
by treadnh2o inhey peeps,.
it's been a long while since i've posted (i am completely out - wife and kids still in) but thought you might this interesting.. they came home from the district convention yesterday with the new dvd intended for kids.
they popped it in right away and this is what happens:.
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cuckoo in the nest
Someone phone Pixar's lawyers, I smell copyright infringement!
Mwah Ha Ha!
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New DVD "Become Jehovah's Friend"
by treadnh2o inhey peeps,.
it's been a long while since i've posted (i am completely out - wife and kids still in) but thought you might this interesting.. they came home from the district convention yesterday with the new dvd intended for kids.
they popped it in right away and this is what happens:.
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cuckoo in the nest
I know the similarities between the mother character and the movie Coraline have been spotted, but the four remind me of the characters from The Incredibles. The UN-credibles..?
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Windows 8 beta, the tiles interface sucks
by moshe ini downloaded and installed windows 8 beta on a six year old laptop to check it out.
i found out i don't like the new graphical tiles interface at all.
maybe i am just stuck in the old windows format and don't like change.
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cuckoo in the nest
Moshe, I couldn't agree more. Ever since the iPad opened up a previously unexploited gap in the market, operating system producers have become obsessed with tablets, and touch screen interfaces generally. The Metro interface may suit a tablet, although you have to wonder what level of market penetration Microsoft could achieve with Apple and Android as established competition, but on a "proper" monitor? Hopeless. Before it's finally released I hope MS include an option to set the normal desktop as default prior to booting,
I am primarily a Linux user, and we have been plagued with similar issues of our own over the last year or two. Arguably the most widely used desktop, Gnome 2 which utilised the traditional desktop paradigm, has been replaced by the Gnome 3 Shell. This too seems to have been designed by a pre-school child with a large box of coloured crayons. Much of the screen area is wasted with toolbars, multi tasking with multiple programs open at once is practically impossible, virtually all the user configurable options have been removed and the icons are large and blocky which look simply ridiculous and HUGE on my 22" monitors. It won't even work properly on older equipment without graphics acceleration, which many Linux enthusiasts use to experiment with.
Despite the valiant efforts of many Linux distributions to try and make this abomination usable, I think many users have abandoned it for other desktops. Personally I have opted for KDE, another desktop that follows the traditional format. It runs flawlessly on my desktops and three year old laptops. When Xerox defined the desktop paradigm 30 years ago, they got it right. All the most successful graphical user interfaces since then have followed suit, whether it be Windows, Linux, Apple System, RISC-OS, Amiga, whatever. We don't need the wheel reinventing, we just want something usable that works.
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New DVD "Become Jehovah's Friend"
by treadnh2o inhey peeps,.
it's been a long while since i've posted (i am completely out - wife and kids still in) but thought you might this interesting.. they came home from the district convention yesterday with the new dvd intended for kids.
they popped it in right away and this is what happens:.
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cuckoo in the nest
Hmmm, The Ride of the Valkyries played behind footage of a plane reminiscent of a Junkers 87 "Stuka". Nope, nothing creepy about that.