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Walter Lapchynski — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:09:38 -0000

Technically, I'm praising the Ubuntu *project*. I use LXDE instead of Unity. Even still, Unity isn't a walled garden. I might add it's available in lots of different distros.

My problem with OS X, though, has little to do with the face of it. It's the underlying Unix part. Especially with El Capitan, many things are not as you would expect. There's utilities that they've removed, utilities that function differently than their manpage. The point is that if it is UNIX, it doesn't act like it.

Admittedly, most Apple users could care less about that, but I do.

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Walter Lapchynski — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 12:38:08 -0000

luckily you get to vote for everyone, but arrange them in order of preference. that being said, just put me behind the wonderful Svetlana. :)

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CSRedRat — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 15:12:00 -0000

My vote for Svetlana Belkin!

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Brendan Perrine — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 15:24:33 -0000

Yeah I tried to install a desktop of ghost bsd in a virtual machine using kvm and had graphics problems saying it couldn't find virtualbox extensions when using kvm and trying several different graphics backends. Also I really don't like that mac don't even make a traditional tower anymore. I really don't wonder if the trash can mac pro would end up rolling down a hill.

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James — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 12:35:47 -0000

MacOS X is desktop Unix. Hate on Apple all you want, but they made a Unix for the masses. The market of people who want Unix, but can't be satisfied with a Mac is rather small.

You praise Ubuntu, but Unity is about as locked down and uncustomizable as OSX for the average user.

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Walter Lapchynski — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 09:57:04 -0000

I grok that you mean it will be supported in the OS, but what about the Ubuntu fonts?

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Walter Lapchynski — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:20:55 -0000

Yes, you can navigate to the specification through the CommonMark website which is linked above. Did you mean to add something to the discussion?

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Guest — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 02:22:10 -0000

http://spec.commonmark.org/

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Walter Lapchynski — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 19:37:05 -0000

Yeah, actually it works quite well. The main reason I wanted it is because i like the touch dual-axis scrolling and that works remarkably. Middle button is there but it's in a weird place (maybe that's a plus?). It is a little small, but you can work around that by not leaning on it so much. Plus it's Bluetooth but runs on a USB-rechargeable battery. I ♥ that!

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Onaj Tamo — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 13:32:36 -0000

Do at least the basic point & click functions work?

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Walter Lapchynski — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 16:30:43 -0000

I think Launchpad's mailing list has a lot of values. As I said above, it's super easy to see how many of your members are subscribed. Having it all integrated in one place (it's pretty much automatic with membership) is nice, too.

However, what about non-members? Do you really want to add them to your membership list? Skews other figures. What about people with multiple email addresses and/or that have an email address specific to mailing lists? What about people curious about the latest news? What about other community members that want to watch the development of a particular group (mind you I'm still thinking in terms of LoCos but I'm also thinking about other Launchpad groups). I know belkinsa watches over us.

Referring to your LoCo's reason for the change, though Mailman has many more options and is thus potentially more difficult to maintain, that potential is only reached if its not properly set up. This may beg the need for a better documentation as what we have on the wiki is really only appropriate to server installs and not hosted one like lists.ubuntu.com.

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Stephen Michael Kellat — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 16:04:15 -0000

Well, I am going to have to check if Ohio is the only community team using Launchpad's mailing list facility still. We may be. We had the lists.ubuntu.com mailing list first and then it was superseded by us using Launchpad. I may need to forcibly take over the lists.ubuntu.com ghost. For some reason this was the markpoint where Ohio made the jump: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ar...

Thank you for your good work in bridging gaps in our community's toolset.