Ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity and installing GNOME

[Liam Proven]

On 6 June 2012 16:12, Albert Wagner <albertwagner at cox.net> wrote:
> On 06/06/2012 08:08 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> No, they aren't. They are there to save screen space, mainly. "Advance" is
>> very much a subjective judgement call.
>
> Any screen space so saved is negligible and is not desired by many users of
> desktop machines.

Speak for yourself. I am typing in Unity on a 3200*1200 desktop myself
right now.

> The price of large monitors is continually dropping.  I
> use a 27" 1920x1080 monitor.  I am contemptuous of the types of "screen
> saving" in Unity.

Personal value judgement. Up to you, sure, but not generally applicable.

>   Perhaps lovers of Unity should always qualify their
> remarks to indicate either desktops or handheld devices.

I don't love it. I don't love any OS. All OSs have strengths and flaws.

I happen to like Unity more than GNOME 2 overall, but there are some
things better in GNOME 2, some better in GNOME Shell, some in Windows,
some in MacOS and Mac OS X, some in Acorn RISC OS, some in Psion EPOC.

Nothing's perfect.

> What is
> appropriate for one is often not appropriate for another.

Of course, yes, but it is an error - albeit a common one - to assume
that one's own preferences are some sort of universal law.

> I understand your being offended.  I also am offended by people who adopt a
> religious attitude toward software such as Unity, as you do.

Hey, it's nothing to do with me. I am just another user. I had no hand
in it and never will.

>  You, and Unity
> developers, would do well to listen, with an open mind, to those preferring
> other desktops.

I do. But, why should I? It's nothing to do with me. I am just tired
of Unity-bashing and occasionally intercede to point out errors in
things that the Unity-bashers say.

Myself, for example, I don't like and don't use the Dash. I preferred
menus. Now, when I can't start apps from the Launcher, I tend to start
them from a terminal - I find it easier than Ubuntu's full-screen
app-browser thing, which just irritates me.

>  It would have been infinitely more preferable that such
> listening were done BEFORE the decision to make radical changes.

Ubuntu is not a democracy; nor is Linux.

Mark Shuttleworth is paying and what he says, goes.

We don't pay for it, so we don't get any say.

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