dubbmann
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Does ANYONE Like Ubuntu's Unity Desktop?
#1016491 - 31/10/12 08:38 PM
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Hi all,
This is more of a rant than a question (though I'd still like to hear
from anyone who thinks Unity is not a piece of s*&t). I am continuously stunned
(after 30 years of being in the computer industry) how developers can take something that
works and f&^k it up. The look and feel of Gnome on my old laptop is a 1000x superior
to unity. I am so frustrated that I'm on the verge of ripping Ubuntu 12.x off my new
laptop and either installing backlevel Ubuntu or simply running Win7. I'm sure there is
some agenda behind the development of Unity (probably involving an agenda with $$$$) but
what a bollock'd up mess.
Rant over. Carry on.
d
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Dave B
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Re: Does ANYONE Like Ubuntu's Unity Desktop?
[Re: dubbmann]
#1016517 - 01/11/12 09:07 AM
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Couldn't get it to run as I use Linux inside VMs on either vmware or (preferably) Virtual
Box and neither seem to have a good enough video driver for Unity. Couldn't get the new
think from Fedora 13 to run either. I'm fairly sure you can disable Unity and revert to
Gnome though.
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Ruaridh
Joined: 31/01/08
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Loc: Central Scotland
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Re: Does ANYONE Like Ubuntu's Unity Desktop?
[Re: dubbmann]
#1016525 - 01/11/12 09:52 AM
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It runs fine on my machine ... I just don't like it.
It's maybe my age, but I
don't 'get it' I went back back to Gnome after about a day. [Currently running 12.04]
R.
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Folderol
Joined: 15/11/08
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Loc: Rochester, UK
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Re: Does ANYONE Like Ubuntu's Unity Desktop?
[Re: dubbmann]
#1016725 - 02/11/12 12:34 AM
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Tried it on a netbook. Couldn't get on with it at all so installed debian with Openbox as
the window manager.
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seablade
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Re: Does ANYONE Like Ubuntu's Unity Desktop?
[Re: dubbmann]
#1016802 - 02/11/12 03:19 PM
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Personally, as it stands currently, I don't mind it. I think they have a lot of ideas
that are very good, but aren't implemented in the best way. I also think it has gotten
progressively better with each release.
But I also don't use it, I run e17
myself. I prefer it, but I don't necessarily mind Unity either.
Seablade
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pag123123
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Re: Does ANYONE Like Ubuntu's Unity Desktop?
[Re: dubbmann]
#1024341 - 14/12/12 08:45 PM
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I'm 61, and my laptop's not that much younger :-)
I was on the point of
ditching my laptop which was 'running' WinXP but getting increasingly slow (anti-virus
using loads of RAM so lots of swapping)
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Unity
- it does have its snags, but I'm getting on OK with it. The laptop certainly has a new
lease of life (with only 1GB RAM and 1.8GHz Pentium Mobile).
So yes, Unity is
OK-ish (albeit with some drawbacks), but that opinion is from someone used to WinXP!
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4TrackMadman
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Re: Does ANYONE Like Ubuntu's Unity Desktop?
[Re: dubbmann]
#1024368 - 15/12/12 06:57 AM
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I installed on an older machine that was running Win2k and it brought it to its knees. Not
sure how I did it but there was an option to add at boot time other GUIs and I put in
Gnome and some of the other lighter ones, running fine w/ IceWM. Most people I
know hate it but for one guy who thought it was the best new thing, actually upgraded his
OS in order to get it. 
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gridsleep
Joined: 22/11/10
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Re: Does ANYONE Like Ubuntu's Unity Desktop?
[Re: dubbmann]
#1024372 - 15/12/12 07:31 AM
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I use Ubuntu Studio in VirtualBox and have had no complaint. It works well enough. How
close it is to Unity, I don't know. I haven't used straight Ubuntu in a long time. My
tower runs XP x64 in a 4 core Phenom II with dual Radeon HD 4850, and my laptop runs 7 x64
in a Core i7, each with 8GB RAM, so I guess I am not liable to face any hardware
deficiencies.
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Edited by gridsleep (15/12/12 07:36 AM)
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