Battle 1: Fedora 17 vs Ubuntu 12.04
I’ll be posting some of the differences between Fedora 17 and Ubuntu 12.04 I do not pretend to create a really long blog post, instead, I’ll create a series of posts with the differences. Before I begin with the first battle, I must say that I’ve been using Ubuntu since 7.04, that means since 2007, in other words, I’ve been using Ubuntu for 6 years now and I absolute love it. It is my main and primary OS at Home and at my Office.
A month ago I got a new laptop at the office, and I decided that I wasn’t gonna install Ubuntu, instead, I choose Fedora, mainly because I wanted to try the new not so new by now Gnome 3 which I heard really bad opinions about it, but I also didn’t want to mess with my current setup.
My opinion on Gnome 3 is a matter for another post by itself. So, here is the first battle.
Battle: Open a file or directory with a single command from terminal.
Maybe I’m missing something but this is something really easy to do in Ubuntu. I just do:
gnome-open some-file
or
gnome-open directory
and both will launch on the UI using the default application configured to open the file. I can take it further if I create an alias for gnome-open so I don’t have to type gnome-. As you can see, it is easier to just do open file. Mac has been doing this for years.
Well, today I found out that this is not possible (if you do know how to do it please tell me). The closest you can get is to only open directories with:
nautilus directory
But no files.
Winner: Ubuntu