Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever
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Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever
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Re: Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever
#2I couldn't agree more.
Re: Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever
#3Yes I agree with this writeup. Having tested the unity desktop I was thoroughly disappointed. I felt as though the interface was dumbed down and all of the advanced features or navigation that I once had control of were now gone. It will perhaps as they gear more towards a touch based interface and even netbooks but as a main desktop manager it really does fail quite badly.
Re: Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever
#4This seems pretty typical of Ubuntu releases, frankly. Anyone remember the Firefox 3 fiasco? Luckily, if you don't like it, you've got lots of choice, the current version will be supported for another 12 months, and the next version will be out in 6 months. It's not a big deal.
Re: Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever
#5I'm running unity since yesterday - feels like they compromised massively on the full desktop experience for the sake of compatibility with touch-based and netbook devices.
I'll give it a week or so though; no-one likes change, and it's impossible to make any significant UI change without hoares of angry and confused users foaming at the mouth until they get their bearings.
Re: Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever
#6This seems pretty typical of Ubuntu releases, frankly. Anyone remember the Firefox 3 fiasco? Luckily, if you don't like it, you've got lots of choice, the current version will be supported for another 12 months, and the next version will be out in 6 months. It's not a big deal.
This is something that's so often overlooked. If you want a stable desktop for production use, use an LTS version of ubuntu. If you want 'close to the edge', get the last version or two, they come with 18 months support. If you want to fool around on the edge, well, that's where they do crazy stuff like this. Early adopters are beta testers, always have been, always will be.
Re: Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever
#7Not the best choice in names. If there are problems people are going to refer to it as "Nasty Narwhal."
Re: Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever
#8Between Canonical shipping unity and Redhat shipping gnome shell with gnome 3, it's going to to be a turbulent spring on the linux desktop. The screams of protest about the gnome shell are already strong on the F15 alpha forums. I've used both and I'm not sure they're so bad, but everything takes some getting used to for people. Then again, I use KDE and am very happy, 4.6 runs and looks great though I do use a dock.
Re: Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever
#9apt-get remove unity; apt-get install gnome
Done. What's the problem?
Re: Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever
#10A good thing I am on the LTS release then. Unfortunately if they keep the main menu is separate from the window it belongs to (a huge break with the standard usability rule which says that things which belong together should be physically together) I will have to find a new distro.
It's the worst move Apple made, why did they copy that?