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Canonical To Ship Mir Display Server In Ubuntu 13.10
An anonymous reader writes "Canonical has announced today that they intend to ship the Mir Display Server by default in Ubuntu 13.10, rather than Ubuntu 14.04 as originally planned. They moved ahead their Mir adoption since the code is materializing and they want Mir/XMir widely tested prior to the Ubuntu 14.04 Long-Term Support release. Mir in Ubuntu 13.10 will be using the XMir X11 compatibility layer to run the Unity 7 desktop and there will be fallback support for running an X.Org Server if the graphics drivers don't support Mir."
Ubuntu seems to have somehow turned Debian (which was stable, lightweight, flexible) into some bizzaro-world adware+bloat that only runs of a few computers.
No its still based on the current version of Ubuntu (except LMDE which is Debian-based). Remember than not even all the official versions of Ubuntu use Unity. Xubuntu for example "ships" with XFCE as the desktop and works quite well.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
I installed Ubuntu 13.04 last night, because I wanted to run Steam games on Linux and it was their recommended system. First lesson: Clicking the "use the internet to install the most up to date code" is a mistake that causes the installer to stall for many minutes while it does downloads in the background.
Second Lesson: The disk partitioner seems exceedingly bare bones. I installed a new hard drive to do the install on, but the installer really really wanted to blow away my windows disk. I had to do the partitioning by hand (no "automatically lay out something sensible on this disk" option that I could find). This wasn't a hurdle for me, but it seemed pretty unfriendly for new people.
Third Lesson: The user manager is woefully bad. If you want to specify the UID for a user (so they match your other systems and make NFS work so much better), well, you can't. There's no option for that. The password requirements also seem rather steep (16 characters mixed case with punctuation no repeats no dictionary words can't be changed in any gui anywhere?)
Fourth Lesson: the default package manager is now an Apple app store ripoff?!? Ok, the UI is annoying, but at least I can just search for a package like the nfs client and get it right? No. It's back to the command line for you for some apt-get if you want to install a normal package.
Fifth Lesson: Software manager has a kind of hidden option to use the nVidia binary blob drivers so you get decent 3D performance. Doing so breaks compositing which breaks the entire desktop. 3D games run great though! Compositing seems kind of dumb anyway, and the weird search box that wanted to find Amazon products that are similar to "xterm" is something I could do without anyway. I'm just going to install Windowmaker instead once I figure out how to change the damn window manager preferences.
I thought Ubuntu was supposed to be the more polished distribution? Why is everything so hard or annoying in it? I guess the partial answer is Gnome 3, but even that doesn't explain everything. Man that control panel is missing about a million basic features though.
I read the internet for the articles.