Ubuntu 11.10 makes Unity compulsory

[Basil Chupin]

On 04/04/2011 00:19, donn wrote:
> On 03/04/2011 15:41, David Gerard wrote:
>> I still don't understand the weird step backwards in actual usability
>> from UNR in 10.04 (last I used it) to Unity in 11.04.
>
> Personally I am terrified of the future of the my desktop. From the 
> screenshots and stories I have seen, the reliable old ways are going 
> extinct.
> I can't imagine developing on my normal PC (not a laptop etc.) without 
> being able to:
> * have multiple desktops
> * have multiple apps on one screen at different sizes.
> * switch with alt-tab or via a taskbar click.
>
> It's too horrible to imagine a one-screen-one-app kind of thing with 
> slow (or no) alt-tab switching. I rely on seeing 'stuff' in the 
> background - a terminal poking out, a bit of browser that I am reading 
> text from, vim in the foreground where I am working. Switch here, 
> there, line some stuff up. Go into Inkscape, pop a terminal down from 
> the top, etc.
>
> Will the whole "power user" development flow be totally blown to hell? 
> Not to mention excluding everyone who has not bought a 3D card for the 
> last 5 years?
>
> I ran away from KDE a few years ago. Mint Gnome has been good to me.
> Whence the future?
>
> /d
> <quivering in the corner>

I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 beta 1 with its Unity and have concluded 
that, at this stage, Ubuntu with Unity is the same as "opensuse's 
KDE4-gate" when opensuse went KDE4. In other words, a total "cock-up" 
and as a result of which apparently people switched from opensuse to 
better Linux distros.

Get the bloody thing right first before foisting it (in this case 
Unity!) on the users!

Using the "Classic Gnome", with or without the "effects", is neither 
here nor there as far as I am concerned: it works like the normal gnome 
and yet it doesn't work like the normal gnome (as we now know it, 2.3). 
And at the same time, Unity is using gnome settings while at the same 
not using them. In other words....it's a bloody mess at the moment :-( .

It has also been said that Ubuntu will not go with Gnome 3.xx. However, 
opensuse has rejected Unity and will go with gnome 3.xx. As a result I 
have downloaded the latest opensuse 11.4 to see what it looks like. (I 
ran SuSE for years before switching to Ubuntu because of KDE4 in 
opensuse. Now gnome 3.xx in opensuse may look alright; dunno, but it 
seems that it may be better than Unity at this point in time.)

Re the bit about "Mint Gnome" above.

Mint is only a 'fiddle' of Ubuntu so that what Mint will end up with is 
simply a fiddle of Ubuntu - that is Unity, no gnome. (If Ubuntu goes 
down the gurgle then there would be no Mint.)

BC

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