So, i have had my desktop running Ubuntu for a while now and I'd though I'd share some reflections. I'm pretty happy with it as a whole but here is some things which need work
- Nvida TV out support is good, but the UI still as brain dead as windows is. Save to Xconf doesn't work and something that common shouldn't require googling
- Still ugly, if you compare an XP desktop running Firefox and an Ubuntu Desktop running Firefox, XP wins hands down for appearance.
- File Management is visually horrible, compared to Windows Explorer, out of the box it feels like I am back in the 800x600 days, whilst being on a big screen
- Compbiz Fusion is cool, but still waaaaaaay to geeky, who wants to remember x million keys strokes and the Control Panel doesn't even explain what the features are
- Installing desktop themes is a total usability disaster for the average user, Gnome Art manager feels very 1990's.
- Packaged Applications are great, anything which falls outside that is still way to painful
- Mirror Selection, I live in Australia and my ISP iiNet has a free mirror, except sometimes it's not up to date. There needs to be an option to select a favourite mirror with fallback to others when that one isn't up to date
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Yeah. I guess I over look a lot of stuff. I've been using Gnome for years and it's improved so much from the early days. After the first of the year I think I'm going to switch to KDE 4 for awhile just to give it a try...
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