[clue] Impressions on 11.04?

[adam bultman]

On 04/29/2011 01:03 PM, Mike Bean wrote:
> That's my thought.� We have a fairly laissez-faire workplace, so I'm
> fairly certain nobody will care if I use linux as long as it doesn't
> interfere with the work.� I just don't want to have to have the
> conversation that I can't work that ticket because I slagged my
> computer via some stupid mistake� (loading a package I shouldn't have
> or something), and it didn't occur to me, but Ubuntu has like a
> million respins that aren't likely to adopt unity.�� xubuntu, lubuntu,
> kubuntu,� well, it's worth considering anyway, but it definitely
> sounds like most of the people so far are voting no on 11.04, or at
> least no on Unity.

Well, my workplace isn't necessarily laissez-faire; I'm *supposed* to
use windows, but my boss, and others realize that if I'm working on
linux and solaris boxes all day, it might make more sense to be on a
linux box than a windows box.  I'm more efficient on a linux box anyway,
since I can have a multitude of terminals open (in tabs), copy and paste
between that and my windows VM, via my various systems at my desk via
Synergy, etc, and I don't need any special software for anything in
particular (for example, not high-priced software so I can export X to
my workstation from another server.  Work firmly believes that if you
don't pay for it, it is worthless, so Cygwin is frowned upon.)

For me, it's not necessarily slagging my computer because of a mistake,
but rather taking an extensive amount of time to tweak things and get it
right.  My new work laptop was built running Linux, and syncing all my
preferences before my coworker had managed to reinstall windows on hers
(because Dell ships with awful amounts of crap on them.)  And
furthermore, since I'm not crashing or rebooting all the time, I'm
working more.

So maybe I *should* get some other version of linux, just so I have more
spare time while I wait for things to compile...