Re: [tlug] Ubuntu Trusty (14.04) issues

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

steve writes:
 > On 05/05/2014 12:20 PM, Bruno Raoult wrote:
 > > I know you were joking, me too :)

 > Actually no -- I'm not entirely joking.  Some of upgrades are
 > necessary and make sense but others are marketing.

+1.  If you use a distro like Debian, you can get the best of both
worlds by taking stable and staying well back in the contrails, and
tweaking the apt configuration to pick up upgrades where you want to
follow either the bleeding edge or the jet engine backwash.  In my
experience, every time (well, twice[1]) I start getting annoyed because
it seems like I need to add 12 libraries to the "testing" or
"unstable" is OK list so that something I want to be up-to-date can
upgrade, stable gets a new release and the annoyance goes away for a
while. :-)

Aside:

 > For instance I think both Windows 8 and Unity are an attempt to put
 > the same UI on tablets and everything else and to me that makes
 > little sense.

I think that in the near future most consumer-grade screens will be
touch screens, so it makes a lot of marketing sense.  I don't see why
anybody who already has developed reflexes for a conventional GUI
would want to switch, though.




Footnotes: 
[1]  And I guess it's been a while, as my main workstation is now on
Gentoo which doesn't make it at all easy to follow such a policy --
about half the time there are version pins on the bleeding edge such
that Maxima is holding back NumPy or vice-versa (random madeup
example, I don't really have anything against those two packages). :-(