Friday, July 1, 2011

Linux Mint Plug (not a review)



First I have to Rant! I tried using Gnome 3 with Ubuntu 11.04 and it was a total disaster and I am hoping they are going to change a lot of their thinking, but seriously; no right-click, or desktop icons in Gnome 3? That is totally stupid design philosophy. Talk about counter intuitive. And counter to Open Software ethics in giving the user full control.

I believe if a design team is going to take away entrenched user methodology it must provide an alternative that makes the previous usage seem old, and worse; as in "how could ever have wanted to right-click before?"


I have always loved Gnome and the whole push to create and develop the best open source user interfaces, but they have really crashed the car with 3.0.

Thankfully there is LINUX MINT which goes out of it's way to make computing a pleasure coming with a very good user interface and an excellent set of default applications. 

For office you have the fantastic LibreOffice, Graphic design is Gimp, music is handled by the up and coming Banshee media player. Default browser is Firefox (so I replaced that with Google Chrome, which blows all other browser so far out of the weeds it is barely a competetion). I really think Pidgin is a great chat client as it works with practically every chat service out there. Setting up is still very discreet with settings, but Facebook for example has a very good help page.

I highly recommend Linux Mint for your desktop. I am going to go make some wallpapers now.




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