* Posts by HashimSheffield

3 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jul 2017

Google's Hollywood 'interventions' made on-screen coders cooler

HashimSheffield

Re: Hmmmm

How old are you!?

Ubuntu sends trash to its desktop's desktop

HashimSheffield

I used Ubuntu for the first time today and was massively disappointed. As my first Linux desktop, and what's supposedly the most robust of them all, I was hugely disappointed. The UX oscillates violently between overly simplistic and ridiculously convoluted. Specifically I had to navigate its abysmal nomenclature for safely removing a USB flash drive, because apparently what Windows 7 needs just the one term for Ubuntu needs to have four different but overlapping ones. After half an hour of StackExchange research I finally understood that my USB didn't need to be Unmounted, Ejected, or Powered Down, but Safely Removed, and that not doing so would be...unsafe. Naturally though, you can't Safely Remove a USB from Disks - no, that's just Unmounting and Powering down. The only location from which you can Safely Remove a USB is the Launcher, which of course, my USB wasn't displaying on.

This is the great Ubuntu that every Church of Linux sysadmin swears by? Am I missing something?

Firefox doesn't need to be No 1 – and that's OK, 'cos it's falling off a cliff

HashimSheffield

Re: Finally!

I've been having the same problem with Firefox for the last few months. Running more than 15 tabs at once or just a few intensive ones will suddenly cause the CPU to rise to crazy levels, over 25% usually, and the whole thing locks up till it has to be killed in Task Manager. Starting to get really annoying and making me consider other browsers, which sucks cause I've been fine with FF for a long time. It's been my browser of choice since I first moved on from IE years ago.