Linux Mint 12 “Lisa” released

Post by wmf » Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 9:13 PM UTC

muuh-gnu wrote: post #38

adabsurdo wrote: post #11

honest question: why are so many people hating on unity? is it the launcher bar?

After Gnome2 was discontinued, Canonical _could_ have listened to their current users and instead of Unity, developed something similar to Mint's MGSE. But Canonical suddendly decided to discard their current target group, desktop users, which made Ubuntu popular, and suddenly switch everything to tablet users. People hate on Unity for two reasons: 1. Because they feel betrayed by Canonical for switching to another t…

Post by whiskers » Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 9:40 PM UTC

quanticle wrote: post #29

adabsurdo wrote: post #22

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>> Any action requires a hilarious number of clicks to get done. like what? again, i'm not challenging you, i'm genuinely wondering.

The author is referring to the fact that the taskbar/dock in Unity doesn't offer the same affordances as the old Gnome2 taskbar. For example, in Ubuntu 11.04, there was no way to open a new terminal from the dock. You had to click on the terminal icon, then click File->New Terminal. As someone who routinely opens a number of terminals for various tasks, that one regression was a source of significant slowdowns. In ad…

Post by bergie » Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 10:13 PM UTC

acabal wrote: post #4

The Mint team deserves big kudos for striving to maintain a Gnome-panel-like desktop experience. IMO both Gnome-shell and Unity are arrogant usability nightmares; thankfully the Mint team is still keeping traditional usability alive in the Gnome environment.

Post by tikhonj » Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 10:36 PM UTC

adabsurdo wrote: post #13

lysol wrote: post #12

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Have you used it? The principal thing is that it's different and offers less customization than gnome2 and even gnome3 with gnome-shell. Any action requires a hilarious number of clicks to get done. These sorts of things are self-evident when you've attempted to use Unity for any length of time.

for now i only use linux server-side, but i'm thinking of maybe swiching from osx to linux for my next laptop. i played a little with both mint and ubuntu in vmware, but i don't think i can make a fair assessment. personally, i don't care for customization at all, so i was wondering if there were other issues besides that.

Post by DanBC » Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 11:08 PM UTC

Tudisco wrote: post #42

DanBC wrote: post #14

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Some people get used to a workflow. They have an environment set up just how they like. All of a sudden Gnome release Gnome 3 - which breaks a lot of that workflow, and also means that people wanting to stay at Gnome 2.x are going to drift slowly into dependancy hell. And Shuttleworth plays his benign dictator card, saying he doesn't care what the community thinks, they're wrong, and Unity is the way forward. Unity a…

XFCE is great. I switched to xubuntu and loving it. It might be lacking. but I find it far more enjoyable to use than Unity or gnome3. I tried to use both gnome3 and unity. and both had me very frustrated.