{"id":58,"date":"2011-05-02T05:57:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T09:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2022-05-25T13:51:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T16:21:46","slug":"quick-thoughts-on-ubuntu-11-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Quick Thoughts on Ubuntu 11.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I really dislike the Unity interface.\u00a0 The buttons are too large and you can&#8217;t move the Unity bar elsewhere (e.g. bottom).\u00a0 The head developer states that this is by design &#8211; so much for the user choice for configuration.<\/li>\n<li>I had problems installing VMware WorkStation.\u00a0 You really need 7.1.4 as it fixes some problems.\u00a0 I had, like others, problems with getting the display working.\u00a0 That is, the VMware guest would run but I couldn&#8217;t display the console.\u00a0 The fix from this, from a number of sources is to do the following:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>export LD_PRELOAD = \/usr\/lib\/vmware\/lib\/libglib-2.0.so.0\/libglib-2.0.so.0\nvmware<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The cube is gone from task manager &#8211; you can enable it but it is convoluted.<\/li>\n<li>I think that I&#8217;m going back to 10.10.\u00a0 Less buggy.\u00a0 There aren&#8217;t any features I&#8217;ve found that are good enough for me to upgrade at this point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And yes, I&#8217;m actually getting worse in posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First thoughts: I really dislike the Unity interface.\u00a0 The buttons are too large and you can&#8217;t move the Unity bar elsewhere (e.g. bottom).\u00a0 The head developer states that this is by design &#8211; so much for the user choice for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=58\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}