From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QQP4q-0003wR-QC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 May 2011 19:21:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8251C1C0E0; Sat, 28 May 2011 19:19:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F7511C0E0 for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 19:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwj40 with SMTP id 40so2541845wwj.10 for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 12:19:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=COv1dL1BKRG6OcINFCAUBmGcVRxQcNy8TGJYG5H/WTM=; b=vesenNB2KO0ax5UAcCHRBVm4fGuINjZ8UIG6Qa7OBm6g3TfVfgodRN1lhmEo8/fhck Nsh/qjFQaasFrDtSvXq2IlaB6mEqwkHi65O+kAeURLNdl1lzEnyT1LtPGU0+nQBLpkDi iJUS26hsyemXohuDE9AVm+wcGqLdet9KJq46U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=inEC2rwtbNriB7WIumQzev9+obI+yINTDP27f5wVzDRIuIPQ2T9zw+u0mbC1jYC3cC Ygd7AgDYsgm+QfBLPcLHtT58hV43BwWRiWInKcQDaVvf6v4X4OWHduRitohHUxh8IaOy GNEGUsNyhiVqZXlpLzrBbglFMygWczXDxSXVc= Received: by 10.216.14.31 with SMTP id c31mr957634wec.57.1306610395405; Sat, 28 May 2011 12:19:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-114-244.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.114.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m8sm2011316wbh.62.2011.05.28.12.19.53 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 28 May 2011 12:19:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 21:19:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Daniel da Veiga References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105282119.07296.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7ae171b49fc96278df6e753f016c7bcb Apparently, though unproven, at 18:38 on Saturday 28 May 2011, Daniel da Veiga did opine thusly: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 20:28, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a > > little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. > > > > So, since I am familiar with Ubuntu from work, and have it on a couple of > > laptops, I'm installing from the Ubuntu 11.04 live disk (video is just > > fine). > > Good luck. > A friend just dropped Ubuntu cause they simply decided to use Unity, and > the dashboard is just (his words) weird. He was used to the Gnome look, > and they simply changed everthing with an upgrade. > > I stick with Gentoo, at least I know my next upgrade won't change my whole > interface... Ubuntu are simply doing what KDE already did - take a risk, go with something new, try to stay ahead of the curve. Unity works fine on my netbook with 600 vertical pixels. I'm not sure it would work well on my 1920x1200 notebook though. That's the risk one takes with disruptive technologies, you might annoy some of your users -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com