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stavrosg

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From: Rhodes, Greece

Registered: 2005-05-01

Posts: 330

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Re: Another Ubuntu Convert

My point is simply that the user should be explicitly alerted/warned when a major upgrade is about to take place. Not a biggie in most cases, but as it happened, I was not ready for KDE 4 and the subsequent tweaking at that time and would have suspended the upgrade if I had known what was to follow. Perhaps most Linux users are expected to live in OS fora, but I am different

There is the arch-announce mailing list. I am not a regular around here either - arch works so good that I don't have to be
That mailing list is really low traffic and the information about major/bumpy upgrades tends to find its way into that list.
Just go there and subscribe. You will not regret it

whaler

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2008-03-25

Posts: 301

Re: Another Ubuntu Convert

I agree. Configuration files are good to have, but they also go against the very idea of automation/ease of use... They will fade away over the next generation, if not sooner

I doubt it, nor do I wish it. Arch would quickly lose it's appeal. You want GUI's then check out the arch base distro's offering frontend GUI's. That is exactly why they where started.

if you can't find ease in typing a few letters into a text file then you have missed the point of the KISS concept.

Oh, I am not against scripts as such, as I already said. However, they will fade away as, in fact, they have already mostly done. Today's KISS concepts in Linux - there are several - are only possible _because most of the user tweakings are functionally redundant/unnecessary. The future has arrived. It's automatic.

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,675

Re: Another Ubuntu Convert

Well, even if there are GUIs for configuring everything, the settings still have to be saved somewhere on the disk. You know, like on a file.

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whaler

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2008-03-25

Posts: 301

Re: Another Ubuntu Convert

Just go there and subscribe. You will not regret it

Okay, that's a way around it. Thanks for the tip

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,167

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Re: Another Ubuntu Convert

Oh, I am not against scripts as such, as I already said. However, they will fade away as, in fact, they have already mostly done. Today's KISS concepts in Linux - there are several - are only possible _because most of the user tweakings are functionally redundant/unnecessary. The future has arrived. It's automatic.

What?

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Dusty

Schwag Merchant

From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: Another Ubuntu Convert

Misphit, I notice you do not say 'schwag'. You texans are all illiterate. How's it going lately? :-D

Dusty

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 3,682

Re: Another Ubuntu Convert

Has Dusty's true identity just been exposed? All the merchandise comes from plunder, eh?

Arrr.

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,167

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Re: Another Ubuntu Convert

Misphit, I notice you do not say 'schwag'. You texans are all illiterate. How's it going lately? :-D

Dusty

hehe.
Very very busy, my friend. And you?

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