A response to a Reddit questionI can only agree with you. I have blogged and commented enough about this that I fear I am rather unpopular with the GNOME developer team these days ( Read more... )

I've been playing a bit with the new LTS edition of Ubuntu in VMs. As of the last version, Ubuntu abandoned its homegrown Unity desktop -- a pragmatic business decision, but one that personally dismayed me as it was by far my favourite Linux desktop environment.

The last release of Ubuntu, 17.10, featured GNOME 3 as the default desktop, and I didn ( Read more... )

Although the launch of GNOME 3 was a bumpy ride and it got a lot of criticism, it's coming back. It's the default desktop of multiple distros again now. Allegedly even Linus Torvalds himself uses it. People tell me that it gets out of the way ( Read more... )

I recently saw a mailing list post condemning Maté (the GNOME 2 fork ( Read more... )

Back in early September, Ubuntu announced that the nightly builds of Ubuntu now supported their new Mir display server, the planned replacement for X.org.

So I tried it. My impressions from that time were:

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A couple of months ago, I tried to update my 2007 Toshiba Satellite Pro P300-1AY laptop from Ubuntu 12.04 to 13.04. It failed, badly -- my AMD RV620 GPU is no longer supported by fglrx, the proprietary AMD/ATI graphics driver. But Ubuntu used it anyway, resulting in a broken GUI.
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[A chap on a mailing list I'm on talked about being unable to find the "Shutdown" option on Windows 8, and how while he and a friend couldn't work out how to "use Twitter" in over half an hour, his mother worked it out in five minutes.]

I've fallen victim to the "trying to be too clever" PEBCAK error myself, a good few times.
(E.g. I spent ages ( Read more... )

I had problems with this a few years back, but the fix has changed now. Merely installing the Virtualbox Additions does not seem to be enough to get hardware OpenGL working. Also, the instructions I've found only mention Fedora ( Read more... )

Since none of my spare or test machines have hardware 3D, I was unable to try it until recently. Then I was testing an MSI Wind Top all-in-one touchscreen Atom PC as part of the Simplicity Computers project. (We've decided against it now ( Read more... )