Linked by Neil Lucock on Tue 22nd Feb 2005 22:17 UTC
I'd better start by admitting that I'm a fan of KDE. It's not because it works like Windows, but for the quality of the tools available. However, a GUI is just a way of doing something and I think I've been a bit dismissive of the Gnome desktop up to now. I read a few reviews of Ubuntu, looked at their web site and decided to have a look. I wanted a general purpose (desktop) distribution and an opportunity to get to know the Gnome utilities.
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I love brown and didn't even know it. I used to settle for retina burning blue desktops, but no more. You think I'm kidding but ever since switching to Ubuntu my desktop is a plain gradient dark brown to light brown. It's sweet and relaxing.
As to the 'less is more' approach to application packages, real science indicates it might be valid. I point you to the Scientific American:
http://www.sciamdigital.com/browse.cfm?sequencenameCHAR=item2&metho...
Also, Mepis and Knoppix liveCDs haven't worked for me at all ever.
Finally, the authors beef with this distro is ridiculous. He doesn't like the color of the desktop or splashscreen?!?! I've never seen that listed as a positive or a negative in reviewing any other distro. Especially not when changing it is so easy. Furthermore, as was mentioned time and again, Ubuntu has a top shelf community. In my experience, it's second only to Gentoo.
Osnews needs to raise the content bar a notch on these "reviews", or add some kind of community rating system or something. I'm getting really tired of wasting my time on this crap.