Mark Shuttleworth Talks about Ubuntu 12.04 - 14.04.webm

[slv22do]

my second favorite OS next to OSX for my 64bit Laptop. Windows V & 7 look so lame against ubuntu. Since version 10.04 it runs on my Toshiba L500 and all the hardware, including wifi,sound,webcam,cardreader etc is working straight without any driver. Only thing to install is the fglrx driver for 3D but even that is only one click and one reboot. A fresh Windows7 needs tons of drivers on the same Machine and 5 reboots until it is useable ( and then there is no app and antimalware yet.. )

[CasualCartier]

The truth is that Ubuntu and Android will be the top 2 OS's within a couple of years! The best part about it is that they both take advantage of a Tech savy generation which will will push the software faster and further than Microsoft was in its beginning stages! We just had an order of over 200 units of all-in-one Desktops running Ubuntu 10.04 We presented them with a demo of the software and let the client experience the software running on a demo machine on a 3 day trail and the were hooked.

[cswreeve]

Unity Rocks!!!!

[sagkavin]

Mark has a great voice...

[AloofObserver]

Unity rocks!

[jdhf983y4uhu]

he's aged a bit since i last saw him. mark you need to take some time off and party and meet some women, i don't mind being your party guru, it's no problem for me :D

[C4MANlAC]

Absolutely genius. People take notice things can be great and free give the industry a run for its money. Ha a pun...

[jdoo2100]

i would love to be able to install ubuntu on ipad!! that would be great!!

[shamusl]

They cut out one of his answers and skipped ahead.

[JohnWesleyMethodism]

I will give credit to Unity for one thing. Using Ubuntu I was somewhat annoyed by the lost screen space having panels on both the top and bottom. After using Unity I got used to only having a top panel. That made the switch to Linux Mint easier for me. And isn't the Mint Menu the most efficient and well-designed Menu in the Linux world? Indeed, it is. So much easier than scrolling through lists of programs in Unity, hoping to somehow find what you need, and then giving up and typing instead.

[TheComputerSage]

Unity sucks compared to Cinnamon, in my opinion anyway.

[Tome4kkkk]

One thing that will drag linux down will be the shitty state of Intel and AMD graphics drivers. Com on guys, don't be troglodytes!

[Hi675445]

ubuntu very spectral over all because of the overlapping tool bars and stuff like that

[Hi675445]

ibuntu 3G

[JorgeRosado2012]

you need to put some color in that Linux like BLUE the brown color is the color of SHIT

[Hi675445]

@JorgeRosado2012 12.04 will do

[pumpadumpadump]

It's not enough to be stable and it's not enough to be fast and virus free lets make it ugly unusable and frustrating.

[jeroeniskoning]

Oh he is such a boss !

[JohnWesleyMethodism]

I wonder how long it will take until Shuttleworth humbles himself, realises how bad Unity is, and makes Cinnamon the default DE on Ubuntu.

[Enemtee]

@JohnWesleyMethodism Canonical have chosen Unity, a lot of users have too. Everyone will not like it, but a lot will. If you don't like it, no one says you should. Use what you like, not what someone says you too like. There's more distros than only Ubuntu, then why continue this discussion? No need. Peace, love and understanding.

[syncdram2012]

At 04:37 shuttlewoth gives foss the ok to change unity! now, lets get back the control we once had, so we can get work done and stop fumbling over the fix to something that was never broken.

[MrRewind86]

@utki17 how about instead of acting like a faggot and crying about something fairly easy to change, change DEs or distros and fuck off. sudo apt-get install gnome-shell .

[MrRewind86]

@utki17 first of all maybe if you werent such a little bitch, you'd have something better to do with your time than bitch about something you got for free. Secondly, googles suggestions dont mean shit. OMGubuntu took a poll a few months back which showed that unity is still the most used DE, closely followed by gnome shell. And how exactly has ubuntu lose any customers. "Customers" imply that ubuntu was making a profit, which it has never done. how ab

[sammojohntexas]

Mark you ROCKKK!!!

[jscottupton]

I am very grateful for Ubuntu...it has really helped Linux. HOWEVER...I've switched to Mint and I am lovin' it.

[JohnWesleyMethodism]

@jscottupton That's the best attitude to have. We can dislike Canonical for Unity, but we have to love them for everything else they have done, else I would probably still be using Windows right now.

[utubearenazis]

unitu is really great. very simple to use. i don't get the complaints about not liking unity.

true, it does need some more polishing and tweaking to make it truly intuitive, but overall i'm not complaining.

good job mark!

[JorgeRosado2012]

UNITY SUCKS 

[MrRewind86]

@JorgeRosado2012 It's better then the DE you created.

[pumpadumpadump]

@JorgeRosado2012

YES!!

[OnlineAssKicker]

What if Mark Shuttleworth runs out of money before he reaches his goal?

[sugarwarlock]

I hope Ubuntu gets big. Then, Microsoft and Apple have to get shit done to keep up and we have 3 brilliant operating systems and everybody can chose what he likes and what fits best for his needs.

[carmichael121]

I'm going to play devil's advocate for unity. It works wonderfully for me, but then I use it on a netbook, for which it was intended. It's practical and a fantastic space saver. Furthermore, the Dash is wonderfully effective. It the "lenses" option needs some refinement, but anything that keeps me from shuffling through drop down menus with a trackpad is a plus. That said I'm running linux mint on my desktop.

[DrmmrJ]

Ubuntu rocks.. unity is awesome, HUD will be even better! I love the direction they're going with design etc

[raziel08leonhart]

Ubuntu 11.10 is great! Runs perfect on my netbook dual booted with Win 7... Ive been using Ubuntu for 15 days and now i have no needs to use windows..

[Shaby18]

11.** is like going from 10.04 to 8.04 and than smashing your computer with a hammer

[Laoch111]

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx will be my last Ubuntu. Although I love Ubuntu based Distros like Xubuntu, Lubuntu & Linux Mint.

[marek007able]

Thanks to this guy, I use Linux for nearly 6 years! Love ubuntu and all distros!

[jpng81]

Let me guess, he is going to continue with the fucked up UNITY.... such an asshole.

[MrRewind86]

@jpng81 How about instead of being a dick and putting down a guy who spent his money to give you an operating system, just switch DE's. No one is forcing you to use unity.

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

[TheCxxxv]

@MrRewind86 totally. people can like or dislike what ubuntu is and how it is, but attacking mark doesnt make any sense. people often forget that he as person is a really good person. he really believes in the community work. there is no surprise that ubuntu is platform with most community help! he always standed for open source, freedom and community work. so, please people, dont put down a person who gave years of this life and money in a community project.

[JohnWesleyMethodism]

@TheCxxxv I just read the intro of The Official Ubuntu Book 3rd Edition published back around the time of the 8.04 release. The values enshrined in that book were what originally excited me about Ubuntu. Now it's clear that Shuttleworth is moving away from those values. You should Google: Bug #882274 in unity: “Community engagement is broken” and then you will understand why I say that.

[AndyTurfer]

@JohnWesleyMethodism I read bug #882274, and I happen to agree with Canonical. They have a vision, they cannot cater for every user's wish-list, they have to move forward. Community engagement certainly isn't broken, it's just that some folks are spitting the dummy because they can't get their way and their ideas are not put above all others. If the CEO (Shuttleworth) directly replying to users in that bug report isn't "community engagement", then what is?

[JohnWesleyMethodism]

@AndyTurfer If you want to see what Community Engagement is, then you should consider how tirelessly Clement Lefebvre works to give Linux Mint users exactly what they want. Mark S. gives users what he thinks they should want in the hopes that doing so will make Ubuntu catch on mainstream. Problem is though, that Linux fans turn their friends on to Linux, and if they aren't happy with Ubuntu they'll turn their friends on to Mint instead.

[Enemtee]

@AndyTurfer You are speaking the truth, they can't cater to all types of users, that's impossible. So I think Canonical is making the correct choice, I've written it before, but yes, Ubuntu will lose a lot of users, but at the same time they gain a lot of users, I think more, because of making it more user-friendly and effective. It's not for everybody, but what is for everybody?

[cc11rocks]

I love Linux Mint 12! It runs perfect on my netbook and is dual booted with Windows 7 starter, which I only boot in to update my programs. I use Windows only for Netflix. Cinnamon is great and is working well at the Alpha level. I do not like Unity, which is one of the main reasons I don't use Ubuntu (I know you can change DE's...remember, I'm using Cinnamon instead of Gnome Shell). Linux Mint has the right ideas and use the best stuff (part Ubuntu, part itself). Awesomeness!

[FBarney101]

I switched to Linux completely 4 years ago after dual booting for the previous few years; never looked back.

[shepard271]

Ubuntu 11.10 is great! Runs perfect on my netbook dual booted with that Win 7. I now only use the windows side for netflix and any silverlight app. Moonlight(linux version of silverlight) doesn't work with 11.10 on my box.

If you dont like Unity, then use Gnome 3(love it) or even classic Gnome 2 can be ran as a fallback. There is no room to gripe about Unity, if you dont like it, you can choose a different desktop. They all work-gnome 2, gnome 3, KDE, and Unity. SO WHATS EVERONES PROBLEM?

[Joddyman21]

Is it just me or does the whole concept of 'cloud computing' not scare you? In a nutshell it means NOTHING IS SAFE any more!? Consider a file on your hard drive...pretty secure right? now upload it to another server where admins can get their paws on it...ideas stolen, blackmail etc. I don't like it at all, similar to gmail = google = nsa! Frightening stuff if you ask me, and a *free* operating system should be accepted with gratitude NOT ridicule ;)

[naumrusomarov]

This is the first time I've seen Mark Shuttleworth talking about Ubuntu. Long live the king!

[andreirocks1992]

Mark, thx for ubuntu :)

[jharrier1997]

People who started saying "arrow to the knee", got a "scrotum to the chin". LOL

[pistonvandrom]

what is yuyu (do not know the correct spelling ) that Mark Shuttleworth is talking about?

[ashkot]

unity is boring

[atarixle]

Ubuntu finally _is_ the alternative to commercial operating systems for anybody ... not just for geeks. As much as other distributions paved the way to make Linux-based OS's installable for anyone, Ubuntu makes it also usable for anyone who just wants to make the computer work.

[ShoGo996]

Bravo Mark Shuttleworth Ubuntu N1

[GlasKoudeCola]

Bill Gates voted this video down.

[RedClownKnight]

@GlasKoudeCola

neah...

Only Steve Ballmer can do such a thing.

[dapaule89]

@GlasKoudeCola he's jealous. he's never been to space

[RyeinGoddard]

@GlasKoudeCola Probably not Bill. Probably the Microsoft and Apple CEOs.

[LordMMX66MHz]

unity is the worst idea in ubuntu history, alot of users hate unity and so do i. i went to lubuntu.

funny that he listens to his users if that's the case then why he forced unity on us when 90%

of users said they don't want it?

[sk8dudejames]

Unity has grown on me. Absolutely hated it at first (had my 11.04 set up mimicking the UI of my macbook) and had to upgrade to 11.10 (better driver support for my machine) and Unity has grown on me. It's actually pretty nice for wide screens and small screens, One thing I want them to improve on is SPEED! Unity is so much more laggier than when I used 11.04 classic desktop. Animations are slow, application switching is slow, there is lag in the dash... it's annoying. I really hope 12.04 fixes it

[flyboy2000008]

@sk8dudejames Yeah all Ubuntu need is to be faster, i like Unity anyway, but it's laggy.

[ZetaSimsoy]

I love Linux, I prefer Mint though but that is so based on Ubuntu that Ubuntu intrests me too. We need a focus on Desktop UI. Maybe attach a small Tablet Mode for Windows, Icons and the Menus. KEEP DESKTOP UI!

[lucasromerodb]

Ubuntu is awesome buy Unity dock sucks!... please make emphasis on the desktop environment.

[SystemEquation]

I applaud Canonical for making Linux palatable for the masses. But Unity broke my Ubuntu upgrade and that caused me to jump ship to Linux Mint and Puppy Linux.

[TheJosephPrice]

@SystemEquation Mint is based on Ubuntu so.. ;)

[LinuxOvermonnow]

@davejoshmom1 I know what you mean. Lubuntu would probably be more relevant to yourself.

[TheLolipro]

Shuttleworth Rocks!

Ubuntu .......... Astonishing !!!!

[AndyTurfer]

@davejoshmom1 I do actually like Unity, but I have a very low threshold for "imperfections". UI smoothness and responsiveness are two things I am acutely sensitive to, and for me, Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 fail miserably in this area. I have doubts it's the graphic drivers as the same drivers work well in 10.10. Just to be thorough, I will try 11.10 again, this time with the new nVidia 290.10 drivers (which came out of beta a couple of days ago).

[AndyTurfer]

This guy is awesome! I hope Ubuntu hits the 200 million user target. I'm currently using 10.10 as all 3 of my PCs suffer from "graphics glitchiness" (video tearing, tearing when moving a window around etc). I have tried mouse polling fix, setting triple buffering, manually setting the refresh rate, the latest nVidia 290.06 drivers etc. In the end, reverted to 10.10, everything works perfectly.

[youplaymenot]

@AndyTurfer i logged in just to like and tell you that thank you for not talking so much smack about unity even though it didnt work for you,all you hear people saying "i give up on ubuntu" they act like theres no other choices of ubuntu

[shobogatz]

@AndyTurfer i had the same problem with different composition managers. in the end the best composition i got was from compiz (even with xfce) or kwin.

[JohnWesleyMethodism]

@AndyTurfer Well Andy, the reason why you haven't switched to Linux Mint at this point is because you haven't experienced Unity yet. In just a few months you will have to choose where you go next as the updates will end for 10.10. I imagine I will go with Mate on the LTS version of Mint, but Cinnamon is making great progress. KDE has come a long way also and is beginning to appeal to me. But I definitely will have nothing to do with Unity / Gnome 3 DE again.

[AndyTurfer]

@JohnWesleyMethodism I have experienced Unity, and I actually like it (a lot). The ONLY reason why I'm not using 11.04 or 11.10 at this point in time is because there's some kind of graphics glitchiness (everything isn't buttery smooth all the time - jerkiness and stuttering occur too often). I'm hoping 12.04 will solve these problems. I'm also tempted to buy a Radeon card to see if there's any improvement over the nVidia cards I currently use.

[JohnWesleyMethodism]

@AndyTurfer I used Unity for 3-4 months and I initially praised it both on Youtube and on the Ubuntu Forums. After awhile though, I began to wonder just how much time I spent switching between applications. You know, you have two browser windows open, calculator and a Spreadsheet window. Why was I spending so much time moving my mouse to the left to change windows? I then booted into Gnome 2x on 11.04 and I have never used Unity again. Gnome 2x was so much simpler. I now use Mint.

[Garegin]

@AndyTurfer i can't see why mark doesn't shell out 100 mil on wayland development. there is like only two people working on wayland.

[AndyTurfer]

@Garegin A hundred mill is a lot of cash! A properly managed project could see Wayland completed for a lot less :). I hope that Redhat (et al) pitch in (if they haven't done so already).