Reviews of Ubuntu

1. 
   roj

   Reviewing 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) (Apr 30, 2012)

   EPIC FAIL Canonical, as far as visually impaired users are concerned.
   
   Compiz Enhanced Desktop Zoom does NOT work with Unity elements since the introduction of Unity as the main interface. This situation is typical and symptomatic of the poor planning which produced the haphazard disaster that is Unity. You have now produced THREE releases of the OS where you have not remedied this, one of which is a landmark five year LTS version that locks visually impaired users out of using this OS.
   
   If Microsoft or Apple did this today, they would be flayed mercilessly, yet you feel that this is acceptable. One of the reasons I started using Linux was its excellent support for visually impaired users. You have now on three separate occasions tossed that enviable record right into the toilet bowl.
   
   Thanks for putting us out in the cold after 10.10.
   
   Thank God for Mint, Cinnamon and Tobias Quinn's Gnome Mousewheel Zoom utility.
   
   Music4Ever:
   
   Given that I have two machines, one of which runs Linux and the other Windows 7 and I'm no mindless Linux fanboi, you'll excuse me if I snicker at you. Linux has the market share it deserves because of the actions of its community. It still has no interest in (or simply doesn't understand - take your pick) the consumer space, doesn't cater to it and will not expand market share because of that. A blind guy can see that - this one certainly can - and I call a spade a spade. I also have to say that Microsoft has done FAR more for visually impaired users (the magnification option in Windows 7 is without peer - except on the Mac) than Canonical has. The latter took off into the fantasy of its own delusions of grandeur and left a large percentage of the community (including visually impaired users) behind when it did. The whole concept of "it should just work" died the day Unity was born.
   
   Aegis69:
   
   Stability restored? Are you kidding me? I downloaded and did a fresh install on my test box, updated it and then installed Gnome Shell (another abortion of an interface and one with so-called "accessibility options" that are an insult to visually impaired users, but that's another story). I log in and about 45 seconds after login with the OS Just Sitting There doing nothing, a message from the OS pops up that there is a problem and do I want to continue. Yup - great stability. I'll agree that 10.10 was damned near perfect but that was the last time that Ubuntu amounted to anything worthwhile.
   
   ONE star for a distro increasingly lost in space and a guarantee that I will never again use or recommend it.
   
   C'mon Mint Debian: get up to par soon because we need you!
2. 
   Aegis69

   Reviewing 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) (Apr 30, 2012)

   The long nightmare of the 11 series is finally over, U12 has restored the speed and stability of the 10 series finally! You'll have to install gnome shell as Unity still makes no sense whatsoever.
3. 
   Music4Ever

   Reviewing 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) (Apr 30, 2012)

   I think Ubuntu is for me the best of all distros, & I've tied a few - Each to their own though ~
   
   Give MInt 12 and Cinnamon a try; you likely won't look back ~ I have & still prefer Ubuntu - Sorry roj ~ You wonder why Linux still has market share of 1% when you scathe a very popular flavour just because you happen to prefer another? MS must be laughing at you ~
   
   Five worthy stars ~
4. 
   roj

   Reviewing 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) Alpha 2 (Feb 25, 2012)

   Well, Canonical persists in its hubris.
   
   Unity still limps on.
   
   Byte It Canonical, Clem and Mint/Cinnamon have your number. In the short time that Cinnamon has been around it has already surpassed Unity in usefulness and configurability. It took the failed Gnome3 garbage and made it shine. In two years Unity still remains lacklustre and broken.
   
   Canonical, let go the ego and the hubris. You took your ball and went home when the folks at Gnome wouldn't play ball. Look where it got you. If you had one lick of sense, you'd cut your losses and embrace the only alternative that appears to be working: Cinnamon is light, fast, and usable which are three strikes against Unity.
   
   As I've stated before, your underpinnings are great. Your interface stinks. You can't even fix the enhanced Desktop Zoom plugin which visually impaired users rely on, an issue you claimed to be working very hard with the Compiz devs to fix. There's already an app that provides that functionality under Cinnamon thanks to Tobias Quinn.
   
   FOUR for underpinnings, ZERO for interface, resulting in TWO overall.
   
   To readers:
   
   Give MInt 12 and Cinnamon a try; you likely won't look back.
5. 
   mancubs

   Reviewing 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) Alpha 2 (Feb 4, 2012)

   Ubuntu rocks , it brilliant

Discuss Ubuntu

1. Jul 5, 2010 - 2:16 PM
   TLees

   Soldier1st: you miss the point of my text completely, I have been trying Linux for the past 20 years and I am having the same old problems now as I had 20 years ago i.e. no printer drivers no scanner driver, can’t use 2 monitors nothing remotely as good as photoshop (and don’t mention Gimp it’s a joke” the man in the street just wants a OS and software to do their bidding without tinkering about on the command line. This is the year 2010 not 1985
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3. Jul 31, 2009 - 6:45 PM
   mfheadcase

   Oh, god no, don't do it you crazy bas****, every time you install a Ubuntu prerelease you shoot yourself if the foot, and bork your system....
   
   Don't do it!
   
   **click the download button** Well, i'll just check out the live cd...