Explain to me again why Unity is so great...

[NoOp]

On 04/22/2011 02:52 PM, Zach wrote:
> On 04/22/2011 04:46 PM, Alan Pope wrote:
...
>> Unity is a voyage of discovery. I've certainly learned new tricks with Unity :)
>>
>> Here's some useful places to learn more:-
>>
>> http://unity.ubuntu.com/
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/unity?sort=faq
>>
>> I found these two useful:-
>>
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/unity-keyboard-mouse-shortcuts
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/10228/whats-the-right-terminology-for-unitys-ui-elements
>>
>> As a starter.
>>
>> Al.
> Thanks for the links!
> 
> Zach
> 

Boggles my mind... but I reckon that one can get used to it -
eventually. Jorge O. Castro made a pretty slick video of how he uses Unity:

> Having used Unity all cycle with multiple monitors and apps I find
> this feedback surprising. I was going to go point by point addressing
> how multitasking works in Unity, but instead I made a video of how I
> use it to highlight my points. If anything to me Unity feels like
> GNOME 2.x multitasking on steroids:
> 
> Web: http://castrojo.blip.tv/file/4997614/
> Download: http://blip.tv/file/get/Castrojo-HowIMultitaskInUnity835.ogv

Worth downloading to view at will, but it's 34.5MB so make sure you have
the bandwidth connection before attempting the downlad.

I seriously doubt that I'll be using Unity in the near future, but I
figure it's worth experimenting with if one has the time & hardware to
play.