A step back, a leap forward
by TheeMahn on Mar.31, 2016, under Programming
I don’t want to come right out and say “Gnome sucks“, I know most have heard me say I do not care for KDE an opinion I solely embrace. Has never stopped me from building KDE based O/S’s right? Some of the activities the Gnome Developers do make me rethink the entire situation.
NEWSFLASH: Ladies & Gentlemen I build Operating Systems for fun & write core code for components for the aforesaid. It upsets me greatly when developers do their best to destroy other developers. This is not a competition, why pull the rug out from under another developer? Let me say this again, I want to be frank. Makes me feel they do the things they do to "undermine me" & every other developer that "counted" on that package being there. They have taken the painstaking time to ensure all apps involved with udisks to fail.
It will all be in vein. I printed out my source code today on paper for one program the world has seen, quite popular. 33 pages of data, I am probably rapidly approaching 40 pages. Why? Them guys, I will introduce 3 technologies in one snap. My motive is one: Not to have to come back and re-write my software. If it is not broken, do not fix it. This is an open source community, do NOT stick your fellow man. I do have other things to do right?
Coming soon to a server near you,
TheeMahn
March 31st, 2016 on 6:54 pm
Hey buddy
do what you need to do ! 🙂
April 6th, 2016 on 10:57 am
I have a notebook I use it on, and works fine. About the only difficult part was with the installer. Mostly it was the colors of the prompts, which is a light grey and very hard to see. I know this is dumb but I tried everything to get them to become visible, well more visible. I turned down the display brightness, and carefully looked at them. Just saying you should change that to make them easier to read.
Now on my stubborn old HP Presario 5750 desktop, I came upon a really odd problem. Everything works, but either my old GeForce 210 video card, or something else causes little blank spaces to appear in Xwindows, in everything. Its specific to my computer, which also gives me on all Linux, this annoying softreset failed error during bootup, for the ata drives. And my oddball soundcard always makes a pop noise. I can live with those 2 errors however, they have no real impact.
I just cannot figure out the graphics (card?) problem. Other distros such as Mint or Ubuntu, etc do not exhibit this. I am wondering if it is Compiz causing it, however I use Compiz in Mint and no problem, other than Compiz decided to take over the main mouse pointer, so I uninstalled the full Compiz. Ahh these things are truly mysterious.
Truly the only one that I could not get past was the installer.
So also noticed I had put Windows 10 back on my Dell laptop, and then shrunk the drive to make a space for Ultimate Linux to to into. However when I ran the installer, it did not give the Install Alongside option. I went to the Something Else option, but it refused to manually partition the unallocated free space. Does that free space need to have a valid partition beforehand? I want to dual boot, and place Ultimate into the free space, on the Dell notebook. Can the next version be written with a mod to the installer to allow this?
Let me say of all Distros I have tried, this one seems the most complete and polished of them all. I am an avid XFCE fan, and for that reason I use XFCE.
And lastly yes it is stupid to have any battles of which distro is king, as they all bring something to the table.
So for the next release I am hoping you can add in the 2 items to the installer for installing Alongside Windows, and to just change the font colors in the installer to make it high contrast. Since it only gets used 1 time by the user, well that is per installation I suggest just going with a plain high contrast. Thanks. Keep up the good work. Doing this stuff as a hobby is like raising a child. Lots of work, for nothing more than a pat on the back.