I didn't mean to imply that Jason should not post here. It just seems like the quantity of observational and conversational posts has jumped pretty rapidly. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but if he wants engagement and a more selective audience, it might work better. Didn't mean to offend, On Nov 11, 2011 4:41 PM, "Justin Krejci" <jus at krytosvirus.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 13:48 -0600, Mark Katerberg wrote: > > Jason, > > > > Do you have a blog? Have you ever thought of starting one? recently > > your posts seem more in line with that than with a mailing list. > > > > While a blog might be very appropriate, I fail to see how his thoughts on > Unity is out of place on a LUG list. > The future of Ubuntu (one the most prolific distros as a desktop today) > is hinged on the acceptance of the desktop experience. While a lot of > Jason's conjecture on comparing Windows bloat to Ubuntu bloat I disagree > with I feel this is indeed an appropriate forum to discuss such matters. > > I think the new Gnome 3 sounds worse than Gnome 2. I run with a lot of > KDE apps from their desktop set but I don't prefer KDE as my desktop / > WM. I also tried Unity a while back on 11.04 and I did not like it. I > like Gnome 2 and will miss it when eventually every distro I am likely > to use will drop it. Not sure what I will do exactly yet for a desktop > environment as I also don't like the idea of running on an unsupported > OS indefinitely either. Maybe move to one of the lighter weight desktops > but I enjoy a lot of the features and bells/whistles that Jason likes to > call "bloat" especially on 8 gigs of RAM. > As much as I dislike Apple as a business I may re-consider getting a Mac > as I wont go back to Windows for the foreseeable future. I bet something > tolerable will crop up for me in the future. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111111/7d699b05/attachment.html>