Comments on: Bling-bling Buntu!

By: rüya tabirleri

rüya tabirleri — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:01:49 +0000

Mmmm, I wonder if you remeber me Mark. We shared some ideas at Llyods in Rondebosch all those years ago. I believe you owe me, big time. (LOL - Only kidding, you did brilliantly) Well done on all your success, and I believe that if anyone could take on MS it’s you. Ubuntu rocks, keep up all the good work.

By: resimler

resimler — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:01:22 +0000

First, I would put some decent crystal clear standard fonts on Ubuntu. This is actually the main reason why I am still choosing winxp when starting the os. Ubuntu is also installed but I only use it for reference. In fact, I haven’t seen crystal clear fonts on linux, yet and I have searched the main *nix boards for screenshots. A lot of guys always say, not true, Linux has already good fonts. But the screenshots always disapproved their claim.

Actually, I can’t understand why other os systems have manged to get decent fonts (osx, winxp) and Linux hasn’t. Is it really that much of problem?

By: ilahiler

ilahiler — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:00:59 +0000

You rock man, thanks for creating such an excellent port of Linux. I really proud of everything you have achieved, I never thought that Linux would be easy and pretty enough for the average person. I hope that someday I may also make a big contribution to the world of technology and make a difference to humanity as a whole.

From a fellow South African.

By: Rein

Rein — Fri, 25 May 2007 07:30:40 +0000

I agree with Streamcast about fonts. I have tried different Linux distros many times at home and one thing that have always disturbed is fonts. At low desktop resolution, fontsmoothing (antialiasing) makes linux distros look unproffesional or untidy and without smoothing fonts tend to go even uglyer. I discovered, that Ubuntu fonts are most pleasant to me without smoothing and at size of 8 or 11 (default is 10), but then GUI looks again very strange and at size of 8 its hard to see text. Size 10 is just right size, but then again pixels start to cause some black areas and text seems uneven. I havent tried printing from linux, but i believe fonts are in this respect OK. Probably the problem is more in how OS handles these fonts.

I like Ubuntu, but most programs i use, work in WinXP (I am videographics designer/animator and editor). Thats why Ubuntu remains to me as toy and WinXP as tool. Yes i know there are lots of freeware available and they are capable to do almost same thing as commercial ones but working on most of theese freeware tools are frustrating because of ugly UI.

But repairing fonts and adding some nice 3D effects will certainly bring many new users to Ubuntu.

By: sohbet

sohbet — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:35:52 +0000

good luck thnxxx

By: scrime

scrime — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:12:06 +0000

Dear Mark,

From a fellow South African.

By: minikperi oyunları

minikperi oyunları — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:37:24 +0000

good luck

By: Matthew Bradley

Matthew Bradley — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:31:58 +0000

Its a shame that all the Linux distro’s are jumping on the Compiz / Beryl bandwagon in order to remain competitive with one another, and to compete with the pretty releases of Windows and Mac OSX. Ubuntu has to do the wobbly windows too, to keep its place at the top of distrowatch. Again, that’s a shame.

Eye candy definitely has the “Wow factor” (as Ballmer puts it). So, if you want it, read the wiki and install Beryl. You’ll get fed up with your user interface freezing all the time, and revert back to using a simpler desktop environment after a couple of days. I guess the desktop effects thing separates the men from the gui whores, when it comes to computer owners (i say ‘owners’, not ‘users’ as gui whores don’t qualify as computer users).

Personally, Linux is a voyage of discovery and the “wow factor” comes in smoothly and builds, each day that you use it - not like Vista, that will almost certainly “wow” you initially, then ultimately disappoint.

I also think that the Orange and Brown colourscheme is inspired! Everyone customises their GUI - it’s the first thing you do - give your PC a bit of individuality. The Brown and Orange theme encourages you to do that. Who is gonna stick with the default colour scheme anyway, when they don’t have to?!

By: William G

William G — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:12:58 +0000

good luck…

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:13:11 +0000

Fonts in Ubuntu are fine, I don’t see what all the fuss is about.

What I would most like to see (maybe fiesty+1?) is a basic X with compositing running right from the kernel booting with some nice 3d usplash.

Surely it can’t be that difficult to start X straight away and leave GDM until later? The usplash-timeout requirement of Fiesty could work with this.

But first we need some nice GUI config screens for stuff so first time converts dont get scared and run back to Windows.