Comments on: First Look at the Ubuntu Unity Desktop Environment

By: Developer

Developer — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:52:11 +0000

Chaulcasian, give PC-BSD a try. Solid as rock and works wery well. I’ve used it for years in the mixed OS environment.

By: Chaulkasian

Chaulkasian — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:46:06 +0000

> 4) Keep fashion out of operating systems. Fashion is
> always much more about following than about leading.
> Don’t follow anyone. Have your own ideas. Which brings
> us back to point number 1.

Well said. I’ve been a system admin for 20 years. This whole Unity fiasco is sickening. windows has a stranglehold on the market. OSX is better than windows, but Apple prices are obscene. So a nice option was Linux, and Ubuntu was a solid 3rd choice for many years. People asked me zillions of times what computer to buy. If they were wealthy I recommended a Mac. If they were cheap I told them to just get any PC and put Ubuntu on it.

Now Unity is dumped on us ….. !!!!! WTF? My workflow is disrupted. What took 3 clicks is now 15. And I’ve had to walk 3 people through a wipe of the Unity rubbish and re-install of Ubuntu 10.10.

Now, to put it bluntly, any company that is going to make such a disruptive change is not a company I can put my trust and faith in anymore.

Now what do we do? … go back to Windows? … build a Hackintosh? … get a second mortgage and buy a Mac? … I guess I’ll sift through the reviews and try out one of the other 45,000 Linuxes out there.

Windows is just boiled crap.
OSX is pretty good, but you have to use their expensive hardware.
Ubuntu was good, but betrayed me.
Linux in general is just a monstrous unknown of 45,000 options.

What else?
Unix
BSD
Solaris
Open Solaris
OpenSUSE
Android

By: MSP1

MSP1 — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:16:16 +0000

A few points.

1) User interface fascism, like all other kinds of fascism, is bad. Any decent system should let individual users choose the kind of interface they wish to use. Highly configurable user interfaces are good.

2) One size does not fit all! Many people have invested significant effort in honing their skills using user interfaces chosen to suit their specific needs. Why should they throw that away just for something “new”.

3) The work “New”, as in “embrace new technology” is not automatically synonymous with words like “good”, “effective”, or “appropriate”.

4) Keep fashion out of operating systems. Fashion is always much more about following than about leading. Don’t follow anyone. Have your own ideas. Which brings us back to point number 1.

By: paolo

paolo — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:38:24 +0000

I’m afraid but the Unity ins’t so intuitive for who works under the desktop skin.
It’s like a context menu, that change dependign where you are….
very bad.
I ‘ll go back to gnome shell or KDE.
Regards

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:47:38 +0000

I’m also looking for a new window manager. Looked at xfce but they’re still using HAL for the device management. Looked at lxde but the battery meter doesn’t work. Might end up with KDE.
Gnome 3 is a bit better than unity, but not significantly.

By: Dissing Unity » Ubuntu Learner

Dissing Unity » Ubuntu Learner — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:40:16 +0000

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By: John

John — Sun, 15 May 2011 11:43:52 +0000

I’d like to look at Unity but when I try to update my 10.10 or upgrade or load Unity as per this article, I am asked to insert CD Ubuntu Dapper Drake release and when I do, nothing happens? 10.10 keeps asking me if I want to upgrade, but blocks me. curious

By: Asteroth

Asteroth — Sat, 07 May 2011 11:43:14 +0000

Updated ubuntu to 11.04 with default unity. Now I am looking for new window manger. Never again gnome+unity. This thing is a disaster, nothing works correctly, and nothing can be changed. The stupid dock stays on the left side of screen no matter what. The even more stupid “gnome menu wanna-be” takes ages to click through to find what I need. No shortcuts to directories. Not to mention, that that thing doesn’t even START correctly – I need to manually start it again once I log in or else I get bunch of black rectangles instead of window content. Of course I can’t change ANYTHING except for the actual size of the panel in pixels. Oh, hiding of that ugly panel is “experimental feature”, at least seems to work.
Oh I forgot – that cursed panel on top eats window titlebar and menubar so if you have a bunch of applications open in small windows you have to… go all the way up to the top of the screen to get the damn file/edit/… menu.
I seriously wish the person that placed unity in official ubuntu (not the netbook remix) a slow and painful death. Hopefully along with his family – just to make sure their DNA goes out…

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Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:33:27 +0000

[...] intuitive. I think Windows (with the task bar in Windows 7) and Ubuntu (with the launcher in Unity) are on the right track by adopting the design pioneered by Mac OS X’s dock: frequently used and [...]

By: Gojeg

Gojeg — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 04:50:51 +0000

I’ve just installed Unity on my Ubuntu 10.10. It’s nice, and lightweight..