Metro and Unity Are Teenage Girls With Fluorescent Hair

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Post by JeremyMorgan » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 2:15 PM UTC

Metro and Unity Are Teenage Girls With Fluorescent Hair
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Re: Metro and Unity Are Teenage Girls With Fluorescent Hair

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Post by Ramonaxvh » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 2:25 PM UTC

Well that's one way to put it!

Re: Metro and Unity Are Teenage Girls With Fluorescent Hair

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Post by PaulHoule » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 2:34 PM UTC

I wouldn't put them in the same class.

I love Ubuntu Linux... when I ssh into it. From the viewpoint of a hardcore unix command line programmer, putty on Windows is much better than all the various *terms that come with Ubuntu, all of whom feature their own unique of fubared cut and paste. (xterm is better than most, but in 2012 the scroll wheel on the middle button conflicts with the cut-and-paste use)

I only have one X Windows application I need so I can pretty much ignore Unity.

As for Metro, I can say that the Metro launcher is a better launcher for desktop apps than the start button used to be. I see some promise in the Metro UI, and my experience as a Silverlighter in a past life leads me to believe it should be fun to program for.

On the other hand, there are hardly any apps for Metro and the ones Microsoft supplies really suck in the preview version. There's the "XBox Live" application where it seems you can't play any games (even minesweeper) if you don't have an XBox.

What the hell is this? Is this just "iTunes" for the XBox or is every Win 8 system going to be an XBox now?

Watch a video from your hard drive in the Win 8 preview and when you're done you'll see teasers for all of these videos that you might be able to buy if you were able to buy any at all, etc...

Re: Metro and Unity Are Teenage Girls With Fluorescent Hair

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Post by mycroftiv » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 2:36 PM UTC

There are a lot of problems with Metro and Unity, but starting your essay by ridiculing the fashion choices of non-conformist teen girls is absolutely the wrong way to frame the discussion. The essay would be much stronger without the off-target metaphor of the title and first paragraph.

Re: Metro and Unity Are Teenage Girls With Fluorescent Hair

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Post by slurgfest » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 2:38 PM UTC

This is a matter of polish. If Unity were as fast as synapse, and would ease up on the configurability issue (like Gnome Shell has with its cool extensions site), it would be head and shoulders better than the tired old start menu.

Ubuntu was never 'targeting hackers'. That is why they used to use slogans like 'linux for humans'. However, they always have and still do provide a full repo of packages, including xubuntu, lubuntu, etc. which anyone who claims to be a 'hacker' should have ZERO problem installing. As always, Ubuntu is a Linux distro, i.e. they provide packages, which is a very basic difference from what you are getting out of Windows.

I found the analogy distastefully sexist (some of the smartest people I have known dyed their hair funny colors, for fun) and the article to be mostly a long, entitled rant.

Re: Metro and Unity Are Teenage Girls With Fluorescent Hair

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Post by revdinosaur » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 2:38 PM UTC

mycroftiv wrote: post #4

There are a lot of problems with Metro and Unity, but starting your essay by ridiculing the fashion choices of non-conformist teen girls is absolutely the wrong way to frame the discussion. The essay would be much stronger without the off-target metaphor of the title and first paragraph.

There's a casual misogyny to the premise that ignores the face that plenty of teenage boys do/did the same things for the same reasons.

Re: Metro and Unity Are Teenage Girls With Fluorescent Hair

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Post by alxndr » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 2:39 PM UTC

mycroftiv wrote: post #4

There are a lot of problems with Metro and Unity, but starting your essay by ridiculing the fashion choices of non-conformist teen girls is absolutely the wrong way to frame the discussion. The essay would be much stronger without the off-target metaphor of the title and first paragraph.

My thoughts exactly. My assumption is that Jeremy's never talked to anyone with dyed hair or piercings.

Re: Metro and Unity Are Teenage Girls With Fluorescent Hair

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Post by mtgx » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 2:40 PM UTC

I do not like Unity and its sidebar, and I'm saying that as a non-regular Linux user, which I assume puts me in the target market for Ubuntu, strangely enough.

I also do think the Metro UI is a passing fad, of which we'll probably get bored within a year, and if Windows 9 continues using it, it won't feel that exciting by then, especially considering it still gets in the way of using the PC as people are used to. We've had this sort of "UI for kids" trend with websites before, and it will probably pass just as quickly as it did back then:

http://cdn.iwastesomuchtime.com/5192012043239windows8vsaol.j...

Re: Metro and Unity Are Teenage Girls With Fluorescent Hair

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Post by Arceliapfa » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 2:45 PM UTC

revdinosaur wrote: post #6

mycroftiv wrote: post #4

There are a lot of problems with Metro and Unity, but starting your essay by ridiculing the fashion choices of non-conformist teen girls is absolutely the wrong way to frame the discussion. The essay would be much stronger without the off-target metaphor of the title and first paragraph.

There's a casual misogyny to the premise that ignores the face that plenty of teenage boys do/did the same things for the same reasons.

If you look hard enough, anything can offend you.

Re: Metro and Unity Are Teenage Girls With Fluorescent Hair

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Post by dpark » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 2:48 PM UTC

So in this metaphor, are you the crotchety old man at the mall passing judgement against the teenage girls? Imagining you're fighting societal decay when really you're just xenophobic?