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wrstubuntu and windows 8 have something in common: http://hothardware.com/News/Microsofts-Big-Hidden-Windows-8-Feature-BuiltIn-Advertising/16:27
cyberangerwrst: did ubuntu hide that "feature"19:41
wrstno its called the amazon lens cyberanger19:42
wrstor whatever it is19:42
Unit193unity-lens-shopping ?19:43
wrstyes19:43
cyberangerwrst: my point being win8 hid it a little more20:24
xTEMPxI hid it even more, by installing the Gnome 3 12.10 at the house20:25
xTEMPxdumb ol' ads20:26
chris4585lol20:26
chris4585unity is shit20:26
Unit193xTEMPx: The new flavor or mini.iso?20:26
wrstcyberanger: good point20:26
wrstxTEMPx: does it actually work on 12.10 i tried that gnome remix with poor results20:27
xTEMPxit worked till I broke it20:30
xTEMPxmore on that once I'm off the phone20:30
xTEMPxI got the gnomebuntu version of 12.10 installed without a hitch.  went pretty quick, too.  Boots fast.20:31
xTEMPxbut then I decided to make sure I was using the nvidia-current drivers rather than nouveau20:32
xTEMPxhehe20:32
xTEMPxBLAM now it only loads old-style gnome2 interface20:32
xTEMPxso I gotta figure out what I did to the poor drivers20:32
cyberangerwrst: not to mention, ubuntu will tell you how to disable it, and it'll actually work20:33
cyberangertry getting that out of microsoft20:33
wrstahh you are getting the fallback mode xTEMPx20:33
wrstcyberanger:  but the point is it shouldn't be in either one20:34
* cyberanger hates how many things this week are basically sticking up for the lesser of two evils20:34
cyberangerwrst: yeah, agreed, it's not in mine20:34
wrstif ubuntu is trying to design this great desktop experience that isn't it, now if you did that when searching for videos/music, i could handle that and since i buy from amazon i would even enjoy the experience it20:34
wrst*experience20:34
xTEMPxwrst:  yup20:35
wrstxTEMPx: does it have the software center ?20:36
xTEMPxwrst yessir20:36
wrstxTEMPx: i think its just easier to run gnome on something that doesn't destroy gnome to put their own shell on top of it20:37
xTEMPxeh?20:37
Unit193wrst: Even Xubuntu had the software center.20:37
Unit193(Lubuntu has it's own, not sure how good it worked)20:37
wrstxTEMPx: the unity mess and how you can't get current nautilus etc20:38
wrstor can you with that version?20:38
wrstUnit193: yep gtk20:38
Unit193Both are GTK.20:38
xTEMPxwrst:  I see... but the gnomebuntu iso doesn't install unity at all from what I can see20:38
wrstno but does it have vanilla gnome or still have the tweaked stuff such as nautilus?20:39
Unit193cyberanger: Ever played with zram or usbip?20:41
cyberangerUnit193: I don't recognize the names20:43
Unit193zRam sounded interesting for computers with less ram: http://code.google.com/p/compcache/20:45
Unit193(Both Ubuntu and Debian have them as modules, they aren't in "stable" kernel drivers yet though)20:46
xTEMPxwrst:  I honestly didn't get far enough into the gnome shell side of it to tell what was tweaked or not20:47
xTEMPxI didnt' see any problems, though, until I broke it20:47
cyberangerI'm running sid, so that wouldn't be an issue ;-)20:47
wrstcyberanger: that's probably almost as current as arch?20:47
cyberangerUnit193: the issue is some cpu hit, but they don't ignore that fact, pointing out the three best examples where cpu is well above the bottleneck of limited ram (my personal favorite is virtualization, but netbooks would be an even better example for most)20:50
cyberangerwrst: depends on the package, some is ahead, some is behind, alot is equal20:50
wrstcyberanger: yes, for instance took a while to get gnome 3.6 into the main repos of arch it stayed in testing awhile they had some issues20:51
cyberangerthe mozilla & libreoffice packages seem to be the worst, hence why I do that outside the debian repo20:51
wrstgnome is going to also start depending on systemd that doesn't bode well for ubuntu and gnome either20:51
Unit193cyberanger: Wheezy has it.  Blog post had some info on it, and Pentium M with 1G was marked as "faster" with it as well (exactly what I have, 2.13GHz)20:51
Unit193cyberanger: Xfce 4.10 yet?20:51
cyberangerUnit193: exactly, where the processor is well ahead the ram20:52
wrstUnit193: xfce4.10 has been in arch for ages :)20:52
cyberangerthey aren't talking low end systems as much as systems that were crippled by design20:52
Unit193wrst: Even in Ubuntu, but for some reason I wasn't sure if it was in unstable, isn't in testing.20:52
Unit193cyberanger: Enabled it to see what'd happen (zram-config package)20:53
wrstxTEMPx: any idea how gnome moving to systemd as a depend will effect ubuntu and gnombuntu?20:53
cyberangerUnit193: actually, not in sid, it's in expermental20:53
Unit193Next version seems like it'll be nice as well.20:55
Unit193(Though, I think I'm the only Xfce fan here)20:55
xTEMPxwrst:  no idea20:55
cyberangeralot of the big stuff spends time in expermental, I guess due to all the code to test (does arch test code prior to release, or just hope it works?)20:55
wrstUnit193: i like xfce, but i prefer gnome20:55
wrstif not for gnome i would probably use xfce20:56
wrstpossibly kde20:56
Unit193wrst: You don't dislike Xfce. ;)20:56
cyberangermost of my stuff skips that due to either small size, or small use20:56
wrstexactly Unit19320:57
* cyberanger doesn't favor it like lxde or openbox though20:58
wrsti'm fond of a complete desktop21:00
cyberangerlxde is complete, what's missing for you?21:09
Unit193Snazz. ;)21:10
wrstUnit193: exactly21:10
Unit193wrst: You can have that too.21:10
wrstbut you have to work for it21:11
Unit193Not too much: http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/search/label/eyecandy21:12

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