[Qgis-user] FW: Problem with Ubuntu 12

[Agustin Lobo]

The sad reality is that they screwed up ubuntu with unity.
Given the fact that time for maintaining and developing qgis is scarce,
we certainly want to optimize it. Investing it on solving problems related
to a desktop that is not good, is, in my opinion, a waste of precious time.
Getting rid of unitiy is not difficult, actually involves much less
time than solving the
problems created by unity. And you'll be happier without unity in general.
As in the case of Dennis M. Linton, unity is making many ubuntu users
to even switch to
another distribution. Few weeks ago I  raised my concern on this regard
as I think that linux users of qgis could make things easier if we could take
a concerted decision. Of course, there would be no compulsory
distribution, but if
we could reach some consensus to which developers and packagers would
pay special attention, it would be great.

I collected opinions on this regard few weeks ago and I ought a
summary to the list.
I apologize but I'm really overwhelmed and have not even taken my own
decision, keeping
ubuntu 10.04 (the best ever) on one machine and 11.08 on another. But
will raise this
point shortly again.

Agus

2012/6/14 Jake Maier <j.m at jmforestry.com>:
>> Agreed - but many Unity users might not, so it should at least work as
>> expected...
>>
>> Most newcomers to linux will most probably use Unity as it's the
>> default desktop of the most popular distro for first-time linux users
>> (I think).
> [JM]
> Exactly. That's my situation. It's very confusing with all the different
> versions and so far I liked what I saw, using Unity as it comes by default.
> I wanted to get more knowledgeable first before I install possibly even more
> confusion  :)
> J
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