Ubuntu’s move to Unity is the best thing that ever happened to Linux

Post by parbo » Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 5:58 PM UTC

jeffdavis wrote: post #66

daliusd wrote: post #10

I 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…

"I really don't understand what other power users are missing." With Unity, if I am on a workspace with no terminal, and I click on the terminal to open it, I am warped back to a workspace that already has a terminal open, and I have to open a new window from there, and move it back (with several more clicks) to the workspace I really want to be on. Much different than just clicking on the terminal icon, which worked…

Post by sciurus » Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 6:07 PM UTC

parbo wrote: post #71

jeffdavis wrote: post #66

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"I really don't understand what other power users are missing." With Unity, if I am on a workspace with no terminal, and I click on the terminal to open it, I am warped back to a workspace that already has a terminal open, and I have to open a new window from there, and move it back (with several more clicks) to the workspace I really want to be on. Much different than just clicking on the terminal icon, which worked…

Middle-click the terminal button in the dock.

Post by dextorious » Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 6:22 PM UTC

burgerbrain wrote: post #67

dextorious wrote: post #64

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"""I care about what I am using, and he cares about what he is using.""" So, by you own logic, nobody cares to read what you and he are using, except you and him respectively. Which was kind of, my point . """We don't care what they are using. """ Good for you. This thread is about adoption, though, and about caring about what they are using --and specifically whether Unity is good for mass Linux adoption.

"So, by you own logic" That is your logic, not my own. I care what he is writing because his perspective is similar to my own. I don't care what operating system he is using.

Post by jiggy2011 » Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 6:32 PM UTC

burgerbrain wrote: post #68

jiggy2011 wrote: post #65

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The car analogy doesn't work so well here because cars are far more interchangeable, although if you use a less popular type of car perhaps it is more difficult get parts for it for example. The advantage of using a common OS is that other people have probably had the problems before you have , often on Linux I feel like I may the first person to experience a particular problem. More users = more software generally,…

In the vast majority of cases, computers (software and hardware) are quite generic. It is only the people with exotic cars and computer setups (Linux on the desktop for example) that have a concern.

Post by DanBC » Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 6:37 PM UTC

fader wrote: post #63

jiggy2011 wrote: post #20

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What do you use to work with it? I didn't try it for very long but I didn't find it especially conductive to keyboard use. Or are you referring to touchscreen usage? How many people are actually using multitouch with Ubuntu?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/what-are-unitys-keyboar... You can launch or switch to any of the first 10 applications on the launcher, resize/maximize/minimize a window, tile multiple windows , switch workspaces, or bring up the dash with a single keybinding for each. The only one of those I remember being able to do in GNOME 2 was switch workspaces.

    Alt-spacebar    Opens the Window Menu.