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Oracle are at it again, GNOME can talk to your phone, Microsoft has fully embraced Linux, Germany loves Nextcloud, and we have a look at Ubuntu 18.04.
News
Oracle being lovely netziens again
GSConnect NIH KDEConnect replacement
Microsoft announces Linux-based OS
German government chooses NextCloud
Admin
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
We look at the latest long term support release of Ubuntu.
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Hmm, I forget now all the perjoratives Joe used to describe GNOME Shell (turd and terrible come to mind) , but I don’t know — it works for me. I hear complaints about it on various Linux podcasts but they don’t seem to affect me. It sounds like there has been a lot of good work put into MATE, LxQt, and KDE recently, and I’d like to try them out, but I haven’t been able to find the time and for me there is nothing missing from GNOME that pushes me to go out of my way to look at other options.
Oops, I meant to change my name to avoid confusion with host Will — maybe next time.
I always say that the one thing I love more than Xfce is choice. GNOME obviously works well for a lot of people but I just can’t get on with it.
Maybe choice is part of the problem since GNOME is fairly hard to customize. For the most part, I have the terminal and the browser full screened and don’t think about the desktop environment besides that.
I think it is partly what you get used to though. In a lot of reviews of Ubuntu, people comment on how having the clock in the middle of the screen is weird. The last time I tried KDE I spent a few minutes figuring out how to move the clock to the middle because that’s what I was used to. These reviews of GNOME are what made me realize I should try KDE and other options out again and try to get used to the defaults instead of trying to turn them into GNOME.