Results of the Ubuntu Desktop Applications Survey (dustinkirkland.com)

Ubuntu Product and Strategy head at Canonical, dustinkirkland writes: A few months ago, Slashdot readers were asked for feedback on the Ubuntu Desktop default applications. This blog post, by the author of that post (hi, it's me again), provides the aggregated and processed results of that survey.

Comments

Re:Video!

[Gaygirlie]

Yeah, I opened the link, found it to be a bunch of videos and just a mere couple of lines of text, and closed the tab. Videos are annoying enough even as-is, let alone videos recorded at some conference or such.

Re:Video!

[Frederic54]

There's also 44 frames of a PPT, in low resolution, with so much jpeg that you cannot read them properly.

There's no report to read here

[goose-incarnated]

I'm getting the impression that knowing how to read automatically removes the user from consideration in the Ubuntu (and Gnome as well) worlds.

The message you send by making video-only text-based content is :"If you can read you're way too smart to be the target of this content. This content is for people too stupid to read, so go away!"

Re:There's no report to read here

[Dracolytch]

A link to the text slides was available, allowing for a quick peruse without having to watch the video, right here:
https://www.slideshare.net/dus...

Re:There's no report to read here

[JohnFen]

Ah, I mistook that slide show for a video. So let me rephrase my earlier comment...

They aren't locked away in a slideshow, are they? Is there any chance they could be made available in a reasonable format?

IDE

[Merk42]

Winner:
Visual Studio

Clearly no one from Slashdot voted for that as it's made by Microsoft.

Re:IDE

[DontBeAMoran]

Dude, IDE sucks. Even SATA is dying. Everyone is moving to M.2 if they can.

Re:IDE

[Vairon]

The M.2 specification allows for PCIe 3.0 (4 lanes), USB 3.0 or SATA 3.0 to be exposed. Most NVMe cards such as the Samsung 860 Pro use a M.2 interface. See http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/ssd960.html

It's up to the host device (motherboard) maker and storage device maker to decide which bus to allow through the M.2 interface.

Re:Video!

[DontBeAMoran]

Print those slides on a colour inket printer, then send those prints to me by fax.

Re:Video!

[mschwanke97402]

There's also 44 frames of a PPT, in low resolution, with so much jpeg that you cannot read them properly.

So, the author must have been stuck with Ubuntu desktop apps to produce his report. Hence the crappy result.

Microsoft released .Net for Linux a year or 2 ago

[raymorris]

https://www.microsoft.com/net/...

Microsoft raised the white flag and surrendered to Linux a year or two ago.

LinkedIn members only

[tepples]

If I click "Download" on that page then "Continue to download", I'm presented with a box to log in to LinkedIn or sign up for LinkedIn. Was this article intended as an ad for Microsoft's LinkedIn service?

Re:When a non-Ubuntu IDE is best tool for the job

[JesseMcDonald]

In fact, these situations are identical to running Visual Studio on a virtual machine! Any application written in Java is actually being run on its virtual machine rather than on Ubuntu, why should that situation be any different?

The most relevant differences are that these virtual machines are (a) free software and (b) included with your Ubuntu installation. Windows is neither. One might also point out that the JVM or other language-specific virtual machine is much "thinner", and better integrated with the host operating system, than the full PC hardware emulation that you need to run Windows as a guest operating system.