Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Unity

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Author: Andy Smith
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Unity

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Hello,

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 08:20:56AM +0100, john lewis wrote:
> Apple have always adopted the attitude that their way of doing things
> is the only way and make it very difficult if not impossible to
> reconfigure the look of their OS. Is that now the route Canonical
> are going to follow?
>
> I am biased towards Debian as you all know and make no apologies for
> promoting the "Debian Way"


Very much the paramilitary wing of the Debian Republican Army..

> A large majority of HantsLUG members were Debian users a few years
> back but for some reason chose to go with the new kid on the
> block.


And they are wrong and you will keep on about it until they change
back? :)

Luckily since Debian and other distributions do exist, users still
have plenty of choice and the situation isn't really comparable to
Apple. It is in fact very easy to run Linux and all applications
that are made for Linux without using Unity or Ubuntu.

Cheers,
Andy

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