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Ubuntu day 16After using Ubuntu for about half a month, I can now share some of my experiences. They are mostly all positive.As I've been used to KDE, I had to learn "the Gnome way" of doing things. That was no biggie. There is a few things that acts differently, and after all the discussions on the net lately, I thought Gnome would be rougher than it is. I quite like it, actually. Now, a few odd things can (and should) be mentioned: Network connections. It took a while for me to understand that you had to create "connections" to get to a share. The "Connect to server" menu choice is found under "Places" and the connections you have made will be in a list there. The way of doing it is OK, once you get used to it, but it is quite different from the way KDE and Microsoft Windows implements the same features, so it was a tad confusing in the beginning. Now it works fine for me. Open/save dialogues In KDE (kate) I was used to edit directly over ftp, using ftp://nalle.no and entering username and password when prompted. Then I could save directly to the file on nalle.no. Since you don't have any place to write stuff in the Gnome, that approach is not possible. The oddest thing, however is that you can not save remote. If I, with gedit open a remote file (you can do that), it will be opened read only - I can't save it remote, but must use "save as" and save it locally. Odd that! I have found out that I can use "save a copy" and force it to write remote that way, but it's still odd! I have tried other applications, but haven't forund one yet that is capable of saving remote. gPHPedit looked fine, but it can neither open or save remote files for some reason. Anyway, that problem has been solved by starting synaptics package manager and install kate. I felt that it was a loss though, as I'd much rather use a Gnome-app, testing it out and all, but I can't seem to get that working for me. Kate was a 2 MB download and works just as great under Gnome as it did under KDE. Other than that, Ubuntu is OK, very well put together, and easy to get help for if you're stuck. I have no problem recomending Ubuntu to as well newbies as more experienced users. You will, however, need EasyBreezy to get Ubuntu to play MP3s and get all the codecs and FireFox-plugins. You can install all theese features manually, but WOW, what at time- and worksaver this is! |
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