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Effective immediately, the new release of Ubuntu, 17.10, aka 'Artful Aardvark' has been released!
This release will be supported for 9 months (until 2018) for Long Term Support, stick with release 16.04, instead.
Official flavors (e.g. Kubuntu) are also released.
See the above release notes for a full list of changes and where you can get a copy.
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The customized version of GNOME that Ubuntu 17.10 uses is very much in the mould of the (now defunct) Unity desktop, so it won't be to everyone's tastes.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Bot on Saturday October 21 2017, @10:24PM
> as I use "hard-to-discover easter eggs" such as mouse paste
That link to the gnome wiki is APPALLING.
Let's see good ol' X with a password unintentionally selected and then exposed by mouse paste, behold:
•••••
such insecure, much info, wow
Note I did it through the revolutionary use of both trackpad buttons emulating the missing middle button (BTW I have a lenovo, it has 2 fucking middle buttons, one over one below the trackpad, it must be an obscure brand to gnome devs huh?)
Let me also show you my personal and biased desktop productivity index, in easily understandable bar chart format
Mac(system 9) :####################
Mac(osX) :##################
Windows :###
Linux :##
Linux + mouse paste :##################################################
Let me also show you how many different clipboard items I usually need at the same time
1 ##########################################################################################
2 ###
3+ #
guess what, I get the first item by selecting, the second by ctrl c, control shift c. If you want to see info leakage go see that clipman thing (if it is gnome's, I have it on xfce)
What's gnome devs' ideal of desktop interaction? I thought the macintosh, but it must be the playstation.
Yeah yeah the adage is, they are devoting their free time, if you don't like what they do don't use it. I don't. Long live xfce. I don't believe in incompetence either. Incompetents get it right 50% of the time.
Anyway it's not their fault, it is ubuntu integrators'. But then again, ubuntu is the distro that once ditched gimp and kept a 50mb note taking app written in mono on their CD. I got back to debian for that very reason. Pessimism pays (sometimes).
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