A task-centric (LARGE) desktop...

[M.R.]

On 11/20/2011 07:50 PM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> I don't follow. There's plenty of alternatives to Unity in Ubuntu.
 > KDE,...
A while ago, I looked at KDE and decided it was not what I want,
I have seen nothing recently that would make me revisit this.

> XFCE and LXDE are the most comprehensive and supported desktop
> environments,
Looking at xubuntu right now. However, my environment is not an old,
low-powered piece of hardware, the computer I'm using 8 hours a
day is a large, workstation-class PC with large (VERY LARGE) monitor.

 > and there's probably of the order of 20 window managers
> if you like tinkering with things.
Unfortunately, I like tinkering but don't quite have the
luxury of making my productivity hostage of my tinkering.

> Why does a dislike of Unity require an abandonment of Ubuntu? Was
> Ubuntu's own Gnome 2 theme the only reason you first started using it?
The reasons for deciding on and sticking with Ubuntu for quite a few 
years was the impression that Ubuntu appeared to be committed to attract
the type of computer user category that I thought I was part of: serious
users, doing it for living on a desktop computer 8 hour (often more,
much more :) per day. With switch to "Unity", it seems obvious to me
they are after a different demographic: MS-Windows emigrates using a
computer primarily for "online content consumption", mostly on
portable, small-screen devices. I have to wonder what else will
the distribution owner do in the future to woe this new demographic
at the expense of writing off me and my ilk.

Mark R.