On: GNOME (et al): Rotting In Threes

[keithpeter]

What has 12.04 got that 12.10 hasn't?

Not challenging, just interested. Both have fallback, both allow the installation of XFCE4 desktop, both have the Lubuntu-desktop packages?

[josephlord → keithpeter]

Mostly not having to worry about removing shopping lenses and any other things. It's a growing lack of trust in Canonical.

I don't use my Linux boxes as a desktop most of the time otherwise I would be giving XFCE a proper try. In fact the main desktop use is child use so I don't want to change it too much.

[keithpeter → josephlord]

LTS is the way to go for stability, especially with 5 years support on stock Ubuntu.

Regarding the Amazon search stuff in 12.10, there is a kill switch in system settings, it was added in an update after all the hooha.