Archive for the ‘FAIL’ Category

So I tried out Unity tonight…

Posted: 28th February 2011 by leftyfb in FAIL, linux, technology, ubuntu
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I’ll make this quick. I thought I’d give Ubuntu 11.04 and more specifically, Unity a try tonight. I then tried to record what I was seeing. Here are the results:

YoFrankie! Unsupported!

Posted: 5th December 2010 by leftyfb in FAIL, games, gaming, linux, technology, ubuntu
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First some specs on this brand spanking new laptop: Intel® Core™ i7-840QM (1.86GHz, 8 threads, turbo boost up to 3.2GHz, 8M cache 6GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3 Memory NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 445M 3GB Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installed with all the latest updates installed and the latest Nvidia drivers from their site installed. It can play [...]

Songbird halts major support for linux

Posted: 2nd April 2010 by leftyfb in FAIL, linux, technology, ubuntu
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update: Songbird has now been forked and will keep supporting linux! The new project is now Nightingale. As many of you know we’re hard at work on NOFX and the release is looking really good – lots of cool improvements, including video playback. Some of you have noticed that the Linux version has fallen behind, leading to [...]

Well, that settles it…

Posted: 1st April 2010 by leftyfb in FAIL, linux, technology, ubuntu
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It’s official, Canonical (Ubuntu) has stopped caring about what its community actually wants and instead will go with the bad decision by it’s design team. Enough has been said about this issue so I’m not going bring up the reasons why this is a bad decision again. There are plenty of blogs, forum posts, polls, the [...]

The Gnome war on features continues…

Posted: 23rd March 2010 by leftyfb in FAIL, linux, technology, ubuntu
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We’re back with another fun-filled episode of “How long till Gnome has a single button as it’s only feature?”. On today’s episode, Gnome has removed the ability to toggle between the text-based location bar and breadcrumbs with the touch of a button. This has always been a handy feature in nautilus for quickly navigating to [...]

what did icons ever do to you anyway?

Posted: 24th February 2010 by leftyfb in FAIL, linux, technology, ubuntu
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Here’s another reason why removing menu icons in Gnome (as well as removing the choice to turn them back on) is a bad idea. What about the 3rd party applications that rely on menu icons that are now turned off by default with no easy way for the average user to turn them back on? [...]

Gnome hates icons

Posted: 24th February 2010 by leftyfb in FAIL, linux, technology, ubuntu
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I originally posted this to the gnome-list mailing list in the hopes of reaching some type of authoritative response. So far there has been no response from anyone close to the developers in question. This “bug” was brought to my attention when I recently tried out Ubuntu 10.04 alpha 2 to see what new improvements [...]