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Ars Technica brings us a rather lackluster review of Ubuntu 14.04. Ubuntu 14.04 review: Missing the boat on big changes
Canonical pushed out Ubuntu 14.04 last week. This release is the first Ubuntu Long Term Support release in two years and will be supported for the next five years.
It feels like, for Canonical at least, this Long Term Support release couldn't have come at a worse time. The company is caught in a transitional phase as it moves from a desktop operating system to a platform that spans devices.
The problem for Canonical is that it's only about 90 percent of the way to a platform-spanning OS, but it just so happens that the company's schedule calls for a Long Term Support release now.
Long Term Support releases are typically more conservative and focus on stability and long-term maintenance rather than experimental or flashy new features. Things that are 90 percent done don't make it into LTS releases. And, unfortunately for Canonical, most of its foundation-shaking changes to Ubuntu are currently only about 90 percent done and thus not part of this release.
It's an unfortunate time for a release in the cycle; Do you think they should have held off and waited for xMir? Or will they finally pry Microsoft Bob away from your cold dead hands?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by VLM on Monday April 28 2014, @06:56PM
Read the battery life section and a section toward the end for a good laugh:
"I typically use only a handful of apps, primarily a Web browser—Chromium with anywhere from 20 to 80 tabs—and a Terminal session with several Tmux sessions running inside it, which I attach and detach depending on what I'm doing (for development and writing I run zsh, python, ruby, vim, mutt, cmus)"
Sounds like me, but instead of wasting time and memory with an ultra top heavy GUI, I just run xmonad.
All I need is chromium, konsole, and occasionally Steam. Everything else is ugly tailfeathers getting in the way. Computers are now a technology designed to get in the way, slow stuff down, lower productivity; although in a stylish manner.
Then much later we get
"Ubuntu is one of the most polished desktops around, certainly the most polished in the Linux world"
This is a problem I often see in tech journalism. Everybody's an expert on what the end user needs which is totally different than what any normal human being ever actually uses. I know what the best dogfood in the world is, although I'd never eat my own dogfood of course, and most of our customers are actually cat owners not dog owners, and it turns out most of the dogs hate the food anyway. But other than that, yeah man, awesome dog food!
(Score: 5, Funny) by Gaaark on Monday April 28 2014, @07:34PM
All I need is chromium, konsole, and occasionally Steam.
"Well I'm gonna go then. And I don't need any of this. I don't need this stuff, and I don't need you. I don't need anything except this.
[picks up an ashtray]
And that's it and that's the only thing I need, is this. I don't need this or this. Just this ashtray. And this paddle game, the ashtray and the paddle game and that's all I need. And this remote control. The ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need. And these matches. The ashtray, and these matches, and the remote control and the paddle ball. And this lamp. The ashtray, this paddle game and the remote control and the lamp and that's all I need. And that's all I need too. I don't need one other thing, not one - I need this. The paddle game, and the chair, and the remote control, and the matches, for sure. And this. And that's all I need. The ashtray, the remote control, the paddle game, this magazine and the chair.
[walking outside]
And I don't need one other thing, except my dog.
[dog growls]
I don't need my dog."
Love that movie! :)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---