Well,
the current menu system in Ubuntu is dreadful, I can only see this being worse. I mean, I sometimes find it easier to type what I want (in windows) but as a fallback I can just browse the menu. This seems like ubuntu are getting rid of the menu completely just for a type based system. Seems like anti-gui to me

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16731071

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Lots of decisions about Ubuntu seem to be geared towards netbooks and tablet style laptops. When you use in on an actual desktop, they seem to be clunky and not quite right. I am all for experimenting and trying new things, but giving the user a choice if they want it, is very important.

With the last round of Ubuntu, I just won't be using it any more. It was the last thing I needed to get me to move my laptop across to Arch. Ubuntu have a market share and they don't seem to care if they piss it away.

That is almost every company here lately though.

I put Razor-Qt on one of my old laptops. Its quite nice for a slim and light desktop. Better than LXDE at least. LXDE was fairly glitchy and incomplete.

On any linux-based system I've used so far, it was a matter of:

1. Set system timezone when installing, configure RTC to run on UTC
2. Install ntpd
3. Set a suitable locale in your .profile or whatever (the syntax is, gasp, shell script, the same syntax you use to do all other administrative tasks)
4. Never look back

Some other operating systems cough aren't even smart enough to handle daylight savings automatically.

Check.

=> edit arcane configuration files.
Seriously. It's 20-fucking-12. I should not have to do this. I should not have to edit a goddamned configuration file with a magic value found after hours of googling just to set a sane date format.
This has been a solved problem since, like... forever. But not in the Linux world.

OS X?

I switched to Pinguy for my latest box. It's based off of Ubuntu and Linux Mint and it comes with a TON of junk built in. I'm thinking about switching to Linux Mint since Pinguy is based off of it. Linux Mint is up to date with Ubuntu and feels the way Ubuntu is supposed to feel, although it does feel a bit like KDE as well. Pinguy just seems to be a bit too cluttered, and the fact that it is a version behind doesn't help it.

Agreed. I've never edited a config file to change my time....... Then again, I've never had a reason to change the time once I set it.

Since at least XP, the following has been true:

• Automatic DST adjustment is enabled by default.

• When automatic DST adjustment is on, it'll automatically adjust the clock for DST (d'uh ) and pop up a little notification to this fact when it's done so.

IIRC, it worked fine in Windows 98 as well, but I don't have a 98 install at hand to test it.

Mine also says I should review the time settings. Which, honestly, takes about 300 milliseconds of my time, so whatever.

What.

Does Ubuntu 1998 do DST correctly?

Right. But Windows 98 updated DST correctly back then as well... it just hasn't kept up with the latest DST rules (allegedly).

The Linux "that's a feature, not a deficiency" mindset is alive and well, I see.