[GLLUG] Why I left Ubuntu ~ Everyday Linux User

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Another way of looking at it is that when Linux started its goal was 
100% alignment with the established "real" Unix base. Now that it has 
become a stronger force than "real" Unix, it is starting to shed some of 
the long time inefficiencies of Unix. X Windows has always had issues. 
We are now seeing a programming force around planet trying to come up 
with something better. Like anything open source in nature, there are a 
few contenders out there (Mir, Wayland). Time will show what happens...

If you don't like Mir, there are plenty of other distros out there this 
still offer X Windows.


On 07/20/2013 08:54 AM, Matt Parrott wrote:
> The bad news is that the open source community has proven itself 
> utterly incapable of creatively and effectively adapting its core 
> principles to the desktop, and has failed spectacularly. The good news 
> is that the browser will completely swallow the desktop, which will 
> place Linux in a tactically enviable position once again. Linux is 
> going to win despite decades of heroic attempts to lose spectacularly 
> at the GUI game.
>
> When you think about it philosophically, a computer desktop which is 
> aligned with Unix principles would be networked, tools-and-pipes 
> oriented, and flexible enough to deploy on a variety of operating 
> systems and contexts. In other words, the Linux Desktop has been 
> around the whole time and has been kicking ass. For historical 
> reasons, the Linux Desktop is called a "web browser". A 
> ChromeBook-like experience atop a Linux engine is the end game.
>
> I switched to ChromeBook a year ago and I haven't looked back (the 
> keyboard is infinitely superior to the cluttered nightmare you get 
> with Win boxes, like Happy Hacker laptop-edition). The community 
> hasn't come around to providing the ChromeBook front-end with a local 
> Linux backend, yet, but I can remotely access my EC2 box for my 
> programming and sysadmin work, which works in my situation.
>
> For those unwilling to go that far, Lubuntu is a great way to enjoy 
> Ubuntu's stable package management without being subjected to whatever 
> bloated dead-end mess they're serving up for a GUI of the week.
>
> - Matt Parrott <http://www.swarmstrategies.com/matt> · (317) 
> 324-8282 · Skype: matt.parrott
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com 
> <mailto:c.e.tower at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Are any of the rest of you concerned about Mir?
>
>     http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2013/07/why-i-left-ubuntu.html
>     -- 
>
>                                    Chick
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