Ubuntu’s move to Unity is the best thing that ever happened to Linux
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Re: Ubuntu’s move to Unity is the best thing that ever happened to Linux
#2"As for Unity; its incomplete, buggy and complicated." -- four lines later: "The non geek will love Unity. Its simple to use [...]". The author fails to be consistent even in a single paragraph. Even the post's title contradicts its content.
Re: Ubuntu’s move to Unity is the best thing that ever happened to Linux
#3It's been "the year of desktop Linux" every year since about 2006 for me. Who cares what everyone else is using? Just find a system you're happy with and stick with it.
Re: Ubuntu’s move to Unity is the best thing that ever happened to Linux
#4Urgh, where to start?
Unity isn't going to drag any joe-average users to suddenly want Linux on their PC. It's neither consistent with what their used to nor does it create any kind of superior paradigm to what already exists.
Sure you can browse the web , play music and do the odd spreadsheet etc with it , big whoop we've been doing this for years , it would have been exciting in the late 90s not now.
The barrier for Ubuntu is not really it's UI. It's problems like having a really horrible flash player, poor selection of applications for many tasks (not to mention games). Not to mention other nasties like pulseaudio,networkmanager,dependency problems etc.
Ubuntu is so desperately trying to be a cut price apple, now they want to move to tablets.. Ok so they will have the same problem they have had on the desktop for the last 20 years, lack of consumer applications.
Re: Ubuntu’s move to Unity is the best thing that ever happened to Linux
#5I already switch one of my production PC to Hackintosh due to Unity. I believe OP's just a propaganda anyway.
Re: Ubuntu’s move to Unity is the best thing that ever happened to Linux
#6"As for Unity; its incomplete, buggy and complicated." -- four lines later: "The non geek will love Unity. Its simple to use [...]". The author fails to be consistent even in a single paragraph. Even the post's title contradicts its content.
Note the present tense in the first quote and the future tense in the second. Unity will be a very user-friendly system once they fix more of the bugs.
Re: Ubuntu’s move to Unity is the best thing that ever happened to Linux
#7Maybe Unity isn't the best possible UI they could've made, but the strategy is definitely a good one. They need an UI that's as easy as possible to use if Linux will ever be destined for regular consumers.
On the other hand, they might've done this too late. Android will probably be the popular solution on all devices and machines that could have been running it.
Re: Ubuntu’s move to Unity is the best thing that ever happened to Linux
#8It's been "the year of desktop Linux" every year since about 2006 for me. Who cares what everyone else is using? Just find a system you're happy with and stick with it.
"""Who cares what everyone else is using?"""
A lot of people. It's called "network effects": if more people use my OS of choice, I get more stuff for it, from support to applications to resources to see it develop faster.
The real question is "who cares what YOU are using?".
Why there always has to be one guy in every discussion of desktop Linux, going "I use it on my desktop just fine"?
We don't care, and it's not what's under discussion. Some people also use QNX or Plan 9 in their desktops just fine. That's not the f*n point.
Re: Ubuntu’s move to Unity is the best thing that ever happened to Linux
#9I held off until couple days ago on installing 11 with Unity and was very frustrated... I didn't want to believe it, but it was way too dumbed down for me. I was almost insulted...
If I want pretty GFX and UI I'll just use my mac.
Yes, you can disable Unity... But the issue for me is a lot of man power will be spent on it. Manpower that could be put to use on other things.
Re: Ubuntu’s move to Unity is the best thing that ever happened to Linux
#10I consider myself power user. I am developer, I have experience with Windows, Mac OS X, BSD OSes and Linuxes. I have actually tried various desktop environments and WMs (including several tiling managers, I have used awesome WM for half a year). Overall I really love experimenting with software to the very deep level.
I have tried Unity and I really like it. It is simple and it does what I need. It respects my screen estate without taking functionality and clarity. I really don't understand what other power users are missing.
P.S. I don't like that Unity has some bugs but those are minor problems.