Originally posted by: tarak
Originally posted by: a7bats
Oh and if anyone is interested, here's an Ubuntu review:
http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2005/04/11/ubuntu
I'd hardly call it a "review". More like a long list of rants, some of which are good points, many of which I'd classify as 'nitpicking'.
Eg:
Good point: "The Trash (or, as the British localization quaintly refers to it, the ?Wastebasket?) has no idea where any of the items inside it came from. This makes restoring accidentally trashed items unnecessarily difficult."
Nitpicking: "The login screen uses the term ?reboot?. (My shoes are fine as they are, thanks.)"
I think I could tell my mom to reboot the machine and she'd figure out what i meant. Especially being right next to a "Shutdown" button. He probably wants it to say "Restart" but I hardly see that hindering use and worthy of mention in a "review"
Edit: I see he even says "This is not a review." So yeah, take it for a grain of salt, and if you're coming from another distro, this probably isn't the review you're looking for.
One important note about his "nitpick:"
I am grateful to my boss for lending me the laptop on which I have been using Ubuntu, and for giving me the go-ahead to post this entry, but I don?t speak for my employer and they don?t speak for me. My boss, by the way, is Mark Shuttleworth. I?m working for his company, Canonical, as an interface designer.