Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X

An anonymous reader writes in with an opinion piece from ZDNet Australia. "Here's what the official press release won't tell you about Ubuntu 9.04, which formally hit the streets yesterday: its designers have polished the hell out of its user interface since the last release in October. Just like Microsoft has taken the blowtorch to Vista to produce the lightning-quick Windows 7, which so far runs well even on older hardware, Ubuntu has picked up its own game."

Re:screenshots?

[themacks]

eh, that's just a pretty way of saying, "I'm lazy"

Re:screenshots?

[Threni]

Yeah, why doesn't he just post a screenshot of slick animation?

Re:Still Brown

[Anonymous Coward]

It's going to be a yellowy-brown.

Re:Polish & slickness are buzzwords

[MoldySpore]

So wait...they are comparing Ubuntu 9.04 w/ Windows 7's "polish"? So did Ubuntu steal the OS X Ribbon taskbar too? ;)

Re:screenshots?

[themacks]

hey, he could have made a really awesome animated gif, but nooooo

Re:screenshots?

[Anonymous Coward]

troll:
Probably because there are no good tools for making an animation of the user interface in Linux/X.

Re:Consider me impressed.

[laughing_badger]

my lease forbids livestock and the downstairs neighbors frown upon blood dripping through the ceiling

Sacrificing the neighbours would avoid both problems. I'm just sayin'...

Re:Consider me impressed.

[LordKaT]

You should use the bath tub.

Re:screenshots?

[Azaril]

Where would he have hosted it? Geocities is dead!

Let you know?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ok, but you'll need to post some information so we can notify you. Your mailing address, phone number, something. I mean, come on, how do you expect us to add you to the "notify when usability is better than Debian+e17" list if you don't give us something to add?

Re:Following my earlier rant...

[Inf0phreak]

3.5 hours? Consider yourself damn lucky. I've been downloading stuff for 24 hours straight and the installer still insists there's 14 hours remaining. 20k/s speeds for the loss.

Re:Isn't it strange

[Anonymous Coward]

Moore's Law: Every 18 months, the speed of hardware doubles.
Gates's Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.

Re:screenshots?

[c0p0n]

Animated gif? Did I wake up in 1997?

Re:screenshots?

[Anonymous Coward]

Animated gifs are the future!

Desktop Linux

[PeeShootr]

2009 will be the year of Desktop Linux.

Re:screenshots?

[Anonymous Coward]

sed -e 's/avec/mit/g'

Re:screenshots?

[oldspewey]

You didn't spring for the $229 PrtScr key upgrade? Understandable ... Mac options can really start to add up.

Re:Still Brown

[AusIV]

Me too. I'm assuming we'll be able to get back to the orange and brown, it just won't be the default. I'm personally quite fond of the brown and orange (but what do I know? I'm colorblind...).

Re:Isn't it strange

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Ssh. You aren't supposed to admit that. Everyone on slashdot has been a wildly-ahead-of-the-curve-or-fashionably-contrarian-retro tech user since before birth. The only exceptions admitted are on "emotional linux conversion story" threads, where it is acceptable to admit that you used to use WinME, and "Oh man, I remember having to use AOL because of my mega-lame parents" topics, which are self explanatory. Them's the rules, dude.

Re:Consider me impressed.

[LordKaT]

OK, that +5, Insightful is just plain fucking scary.

Re:Consider me impressed.

[suggsjc]

Human sacrifice is only necessary if you're installing Gentoo.

There, fixed that for you...

Re:screenshots?

[ArcherB]

Who gives a shit why he needs a touchscreen? This is just excuse-making. Maybe he IS working on a kiosk. Maybe he's working on a POS cash-register app, or the next generation of surface-based interfaces. Maybe he just prefers touchscreens.

Honestly, I get sick of this attitude from developers when someone suggests a useful feature - "why would you need that?" That's why Linux will always by a system "by programmers, for programmers."

I believe that the GP was talking about XP and Vista's lack of support for certain touchscreens. What does that have to do with Linux developers? If anything, it shows that Windows "will always be a system 'by programmers, for programmers.'"

Re:I'm going to give it a try

[MightyMartian]

Yeah, I hated how when I installed, it didn't recognize my video card, and I had to go hunt down the drivers.

Oh wait, that was XP SP3.

Re:Something lacking

[jd]

It's being compared to Windows 7. Do you REALLY want screenshots, or painkillers?

Re:Isn't it strange

[drinkypoo]

If the hardware manufacturers weren't so bent on making Coreboot a PITA then I would consider it. I do have an IBM eServer 325 that I'd like to put coreboot on. Problem is, last time I followed the build guide I received a MASSIVE FAIL... kind of like trying to build Angstrom linux. OpenEmbedded? Embedded in my eye.

UBUNTU JAUNTY fucking JACKALOPE?

[Anonymous Coward]

SAY IT. Say it, you annoying nerds. "UBUNTU JAUNTY JACKALOPE". Try selling that on the street.

"I use Windows Vista."
"I use a Mac with Leopard."
"I use Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope."

Can't you thick shits get it into your retarded heads that nothing is even remotely "slick" when it has such an annoying, quirky, long name that the average Joe would be embarrassed to even ask for it?

Give up. This is not the decade of Linux on the desktop, because you cunts haven't even begun to understand how to reach the consumer.

Disclaimer: I am in marketing. I have done work for Apple. I believe we are, as it were, winning.

Re:Isn't it strange

[Feanturi]

For kicks I installed Win98 on one of my modern boxes once. The install process was blinding fast. Up and bluescreening in less than 5 minutes. It would only stay stable with no NIC drivers installed. Might have been tempting to keep going otherwise...

Re:Isn't it strange

[Anonymous Coward]

I've heard that listed better as 'What Moore giveth, Gates taketh away.'

Re:Ubuntu- Text Editor,OSX- Professional Page Layo

[Zarluk]

May be we need: "Designers! Designers! Designers!"

Re:screenshots?

[The Wooden Badger]

Would you prefer flash animation?

Re:screenshots?

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

I had to go digging for the drivers and apps for my tablet for XP and vista. they did not magicanny install and work without effort.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.
In fact, I don't know what that word means.

Re:screenshots?

[b4dc0d3r]

I wrote a library adding support for MNG to IE - called MINGE [urbandictionary.com]

Re:screenshots?

[Anonymous Coward]

I've seen a turd polished up pretty nicely on Mythbusters....

Re:screenshots?

[jdgeorge]

The theme itself though, sadly, hasn't changed.

What do you have against the color brown?? Other than it happens to be the color of dog poop laying on dirt.

Hmmm.... Brown is also the color of delicious chocolate, and benevolent, life-giving coffee, and the hazy morning sky over Newark, New Jersey....

Re:screenshots?

[davester666]

> You must mean 1984.

Are you telling me that when I am watching animated GIF's, they are watching me?

Re:screenshots?

[Anonymous Coward]

Would somebody give this kid some toys to play with? He is just upset, and should be fine after a while.

Re:screenshots?

[E IS mC(Square)]

Some people, you know, just like complicated ancient technologies, like "drag and drop" and "sync" using some free tools (like amarok on Linux, or Mediamonkey on Windows). It makes you wonder if their dicks are as big as yours. Non-confirmist hippies and their refusal to sell their soul. They just don't know the pleasure of bondage, like you and me!