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On it's current state it's pretty slow and bloated. Let's hope that on six months they can fix the suck. Kudos for trying something new and not copying OSX or Windows 7.
On it's current state it's pretty slow and bloated. Let's hope that on six months they can fix the suck. Kudos for trying something new and not copying OSX or Windows 7.
Did you look at their Dock drawing and menu titles? Straight ripoff of the Mac OS X Dock and Dashboard dock.
If the platform is commoditized, it's relatively "easy" for companies to build a new personality in the way they think will add value. Canonical's great push forward was and is realizing that one of the biggest problem with Linux desktop nowadays is UX, and they're trying hard to fix that.
Personally, I prefer GNOME Shell and I think it's going to rock, especially on tablets. I've tried Unity in Maverick on a few netbooks, just for a few minutes each, since it's default for live install image. I do think it lacks polish and stability and, compared to Moblin/Meego, it's still got a long way to go towards tablet friendlyness.
But I love the fact that there are options [0], and that Linux Desktop, aside from never having its year, is a viable platform on which people can experiment and build cool stuff, even if the end users never learn that under this Ubuntu (or Fedora, ...) operating system there's something geeks have holy wars about.
[0] Then there is, obviously, KDE, which a great many people use and love. But this is a comment about GNOME technologies :)
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Fingers crossed this encourages Parallels to improve their support of compositing in Ubuntu VMs (since, I assume from another article, Unity required compositing). I've still not yet had it working reliably. Any idea if Parallels 6 works any better?
Fingers crossed this encourages Parallels to improve their support of compositing in Ubuntu VMs (since, I assume from another article, Unity required compositing). I've still not yet had it working reliably. Any idea if Parallels 6 works any better?
VirtualBox too. I've never been able to make Unity on Maverick Netbook Edition work on VirtualBox 3.2.x.
I miss compiz (or whatever it's called these days) when devving under Ubuntu under OSX :/
[ogv file]
http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2010/...
I haven't tried Unity yet because I heard to wasn't quite stable. But from what I saw of a friends laptop who had it installed, it looks PERFECT for netbooks, even tablets (now that we have multi-touch support built in). I think this makes sense seeing as the future of computers (desktops included) will probably be touchable interfaces that can use that kind of layout. Sweet!
I tried it, unfortunately doesn't seem to work on my laptop :/ I'm not sure what's the deal with it, seems to have some special hardware requirements. I can't fathom what these are, seeing as I have an ATI Radeon video card.