by Driver » Mon Nov 14, 2011 4:28 am
I picked my three choices in the poll and clicked the button, but I got this message: "The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again."
So...
Ultimate Edition will (I hope) never fit on a CD, so might as well make the .ISO completely fill a DVD-R (or +R).
Bloated to me doesn't mean 1,001 apps - it means unnecessary, convuluted, and/or kludgy code in the apps/OS (however many there are). It's going on a DVD, fill that puppy UP, lol. Perhaps adding a text file with simple descriptions as to what the various apps are for - much like the descriptions that appear when hovering the mouse cursor over them in the menus - and a preface explaining that it is not necessary to master - or even use - everything, that choices were included in hopes that the user can find at least one app from every category that he/she likes. Maybe even a simple step-by-step procedure explaining how to remove apps that the user wishes to <POOF>. For that matter, stick something pointless in there for the express purpose of walking user through removing it. Just make sure to add PointlessApp to the repository so you can also show user how simple it is to add back mistakenly-removed things via Synaptic (et cetera?) and user will never be afraid of adding or removing apps (or Synaptic) again because he/she will have used it for both.
Desktop Environment: Gnome. For a second choice, Gnome. If Gnome isn't available... <SHRUGS> I don't really guess it matters. The last one I liked before discovering Gnome was the DE built into MS Windows 3.11. They both take care of doing all the things that I need to happen in order to use my computer without me having to worry about them - and do so in such a way that I don't have to stop and try to figure out how to use them, they work intuitively (I put Ultimate Edition on my 73-year old friend's computer last year, she was unable to contact me to ask for help the next day, and later stated that she "just thought how it ought to work and that's how it did." You simply cannot ask for more - A DE that facilitates you're being able to use the computer without having to stop and think about how to do it.
I'm told that Gnome has the eye-candy which probably makes people happy who would just as soon stare at their computer as use it, lol. I don't know, mine are old enough to have been around when the Dead Sea was just feeling a little under the weather. But I did notice when updating to UE2.7 that the windows wiggle when I move them. That's kind of nice, when I get frustrated I can grab one and shake it.
Whatever you good folks decide, I trust that you'll continue in the spirit of excellence for which you are known. You have my sincere thanks for everything that you've done so far and which you'll do in the future. I hopped on board with UE2.3 and except for a few initial self-caused problems - which actually had to do with me deleting Ultimate Edition without realizing that I still needed the bootloader to get into Windows... And then you were kind enough to help me fix Windows (try getting "higher-ups" on the MS Windows development team to walk you through repairing linux if you mess it up whilst deleting Windows, lol) - I have had no serious issues and few non-serious ones.
Driver "Driving you over the edge..."
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