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Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #7 - 'open with' apps listed twice

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On 4/22/14, 5:54 PM, in article lj730t$dqh$1@dont-email.me, "DFS"
<nospam@dfs.com> wrote:

>> Funny enough, I was considering putting Ubuntu on my wife's HP Elitebook
>> 8560p laptop sine it is no longer being used at work. That image alone
>> discouraged me from giving it a chance. I guess I'll just pay the 80$ or
>> so for the Windows 8 license.
> 
> Go for it if you think she won't mind Win8.  I only paid $14.99 to MS
> for Win8, and I still feel ripped off.  But I'll be OK if they give me
> free or cheap upgrades to a Win9 that completely removes the Tiles and
> ModernUI and restores the desktop front and center.

The Start menu, reportedly, is coming back but it has a mini-tiles view. I
have seen different variations on this, but this is a common claim:
<http://goo.gl/u8iBDK>. Better than what they have now, but still a bit
insane. I bet - or at least hope - there is an easy way to get normal menus
back.

> None of the 12 Ubuntu bugs I found seem dangerous enough to cause data
> loss or system problems.  Mainly they're the result of lack of testing
> and commitment by the developers.

Seems rampant in the open source world.

> I'm not about to waste time reporting them - I don't believe for a
> second they'll ever be fixed, considering there are nearly 49,000
> confirmed, triaged or in progress bugs in Ubuntu Launchpad.
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?advanced=1

The KDE team has fallen down on the job of looking at the bugs I reported:

    <http://goo.gl/C9zs3h>

Most are still in the "unconfirmed" state - many still unassigned... is
anyone even paying attention to the bugs?



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Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #7 - 'open with' apps listed twice DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-04-22 12:55 -0400
  Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #7 - 'open with' apps listed twice Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-22 09:58 -0700
  Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #7 - 'open with' apps listed twice DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-04-22 13:14 -0400
    Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #7 - 'open with' apps listed twice Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-04-22 18:34 +0100
      Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #7 - 'open with' apps listed twice Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-22 10:41 -0700
    Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #7 - 'open with' apps listed twice Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-04-22 20:05 -0400
      Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #7 - 'open with' apps listed twice GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2014-04-22 18:24 -0600
        Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #7 - 'open with' apps listed twice Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-04-22 20:29 -0400
      Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #7 - 'open with' apps listed twice DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-04-22 20:54 -0400
        Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #7 - 'open with' apps listed twice Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-22 18:28 -0700
        Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #7 - 'open with' apps listed twice 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-23 08:37 -0400
          Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #7 - 'open with' apps listed twice Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-04-23 08:58 -0400
        Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Shitware: Bug #7 - 'open with' apps listed twice Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-04-24 13:04 +0200

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