Ubuntu 16.04 Brings More Privacy and Big Changes to the Desktop

The New American ^ | 24 April 2016 | C. Mitchell Shaw

[jdege]

I stopped using Ubuntu when they started that crappy Unity interface. It’s unusable.

[ConservativeMind]

This is written to make it sound like Ubuntu is riddled with spyware:

“The tech world is taking notice of these and other changes in the operating system. PCWorld reported on the big changes in 16.04 and Softpedia called it “an entire operating system of spyware.””

[VitacoreVision]

Looks like a mistake.

Windows 10 is full of spyware, not Ubuntu 16.04.

[usconservative]

So, has Linux fixed their issues with NVidia cards yet?

Not about to rip out my GeForce GTX 970 to run Linux .....

[steve86]

NVIDIA DRIVERS Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver www​.nvidia.com/download/...aspx/.../en-... Sep 18, 2014 ... Added support for the following GPUs: GeForce GTX 970 GeForce GTX 980. Fixed a bug that

Added in 15.04

[Jack Hydrazine]

Matrix Runs on Windows XP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8yrOAjfKM

[GunningForTheBuddha]

That's when I switched over to Kubuntu, but some of my friends really like Mint. I'm not one of the Linux power users that need Earth's smallest kernel, so whatever "bloat" *ubuntu adds has never really bothered me as most of what I need "just works".

Do you use a different Linux distro or did you just go OS X?

[Bob434]

I dunno- I had read reports that ubuntu with it’s canonical connection was beginning to incorporate soem spyware too- many users were gettin pretty upset over it

[Dalberg-Acton]

“Microsoft seems to be rolling out updates to Windows 7 and 8 that bring them into line with the “spyware” elements of Windows”

The Feb 9 updates included some of this and also caused my Corel Video Studio to not start. MS attitude was, too bad not our problem.
I removed the Microsoft updates and now I proudly fly the “you have updates turned off” flag on my Win7 notifications toolbar.

[jdege]

I do Mint. What bugs me about Unity is that it depends upon the GPU, which makes it not work well when remoted or when run in a virtual. And I’m always running in a virtual.

[Dundee]

I run Xubuntu in a VM. It feels more Windows like without Microsoft’s crud or Unity’s interface.

[Maurice Tift]

  It's a blast! I just installed it. There were a few problems getting it to play DVDs, but the key turned out to be installing libdvdcss2. I also had some trouble installing Minitube when I used the default software installer. I had to install the classic gdebi package installer [sudo apt-get install gdebi] in order to properly install the downloaded Minitube.deb file.


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[VitacoreVision]

The article was corrected:

The tech world is taking notice of these and other changes in the operating system. PCWorld reported on the big changes in 16.04 and Softpedia called it “the best release in years.”

[jdege]

Underneath, Ubuntu is a solid distribution, once you get rid of Unity. I prefer MATE to XFCE. (And to Gnome 3 and Cinnamon).

This idea that you can, let alone should, build a UI that is useful for both desktop and phone/tablet is simply wrong.

[RansomOttawa]

This is written to make it sound like Ubuntu is riddled with spyware:

That is a terrible sentence. The linked article is referring to Windows 10, not Ubuntu 16.04.

[RansomOttawa]

I stopped using Ubuntu when they started that crappy Unity interface. It’s unusable.

Try as I might, I can't stand to use Unity for more than a few days. Over the last number of years I have alternated between KDE and MATE for a desktop environment.

The latest KDE 5 seems very flaky on my laptop, so I've settled on Ubuntu MATE. I've had better success with KDE on my desktop PC, but at this point I'm undecided whether to stick with it or jump ship to MATE on that system, too.

[nomad]

Bump

[dennisw]

BTT