<story><title>Ubuntu 14.04 LTS</title><url>http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>I sometimes feel like I&amp;#x27;m the only developer who doesn&amp;#x27;t want to spend all his free time fiddling around with his operating system.&lt;p&gt;To me, that&amp;#x27;s not developing.  It&amp;#x27;s just extra work that&amp;#x27;s completely orthagonal to building cool software.</text></item><item><author>ProblemFactory</author><text>Most HN readers are developers (who all have unique and specific tastes in their machine setup), and have enough experience with Linux to find it easy to install alternative window managers.&lt;p&gt;For &amp;quot;popular adoption&amp;quot;, I&amp;#x27;m sure the completely standard Ubuntu install is just fine.</text></item><item><author>samolang</author><text>The first comment I saw said it was impressive. The second said I should use Gnome instead of Unity. The third said I should try something called localepurge for a leaner install. The fourth said KDE was better than Gnome and Unity. The fifth recommended Xubuntu over Gnome.&lt;p&gt;This is the sort of fragmentation that makes popular adoption difficult, but is also what makes Linux awesome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>Yeah. I used to screw around with that quite a bit. At the time it was fun. Now I&amp;#x27;m all about minimum time to productivity.&lt;p&gt;Turns out there are technical terms for the behavior. For OSes, you and I are satisficers: we just want it to be good enough. I used to be a maximizer, where I wanted it to be perfect.&lt;p&gt;Learning to choose which approach to take in a situation has been really great. For example, restaurant menus. I used to be a maximizer, trying to pick the best thing. Eventually I decided agonizing over my choice was a fair bit of stress for little or no gain; it was easy to finish my meal and think, &amp;quot;Damn, maybe I should have gotten that other thing.&amp;quot; Now I just skim the menu and go with the first thing that looks good to me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ubuntu 14.04 LTS</title><url>http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>I sometimes feel like I&amp;#x27;m the only developer who doesn&amp;#x27;t want to spend all his free time fiddling around with his operating system.&lt;p&gt;To me, that&amp;#x27;s not developing.  It&amp;#x27;s just extra work that&amp;#x27;s completely orthagonal to building cool software.</text></item><item><author>ProblemFactory</author><text>Most HN readers are developers (who all have unique and specific tastes in their machine setup), and have enough experience with Linux to find it easy to install alternative window managers.&lt;p&gt;For &amp;quot;popular adoption&amp;quot;, I&amp;#x27;m sure the completely standard Ubuntu install is just fine.</text></item><item><author>samolang</author><text>The first comment I saw said it was impressive. The second said I should use Gnome instead of Unity. The third said I should try something called localepurge for a leaner install. The fourth said KDE was better than Gnome and Unity. The fifth recommended Xubuntu over Gnome.&lt;p&gt;This is the sort of fragmentation that makes popular adoption difficult, but is also what makes Linux awesome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Touche</author><text>Customizing your OS to your needs might not be &amp;quot;developing&amp;quot;, but it comes from the same place of dissatisfaction with the status quo that is the reason we all develop the things we do. It&amp;#x27;s just a matter of where that dissatisfaction is, and to what degree it bothers you.</text></comment>