Review: Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop (DistroWatch Weekly #480)

Posted by caitlyn on Oct 30, 2012 8:31 AM EDT
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After a day and a half of using Ubuntu 12.10 it was an internal struggle not to wipe my hard drive and just find another distribution to review. During the first twenty-four hours Ubuntu spied on me, provided performance which was distinctly sub par, the interface regularly popped up errors (sometimes so frequently the first pop-up wouldn't have faded out of view before the next one appeared), the update notification didn't work and it wasn't possible to turn off accessibility features through the graphical interface. Adding insult to injury, the Unity dash kept locking up or losing focus while I was trying to use it and the operating system crashed more times than not while trying to shutdown or logout.

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Nobody will ever accuse... caitlyn 8 2,012 Oct 31, 2012 7:48 PM

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