So stupid. Ubuntu classic was one of the best desktops of all time. People were coming around it just takes time sometimes for things to catch on (Even in my computer science department you'd be surprised how many people simply weren't aware of Ubuntu). You didn't need a new desktop creating new if unintended but very real obstacles to people adopting Ubuntu. You simply needed more advertising.
I upgraded from 11.04 running Gnome desktop to 11.10. After I saw that unity piece of shit I took 10 mins trying to figure out how to find anything- I couldn't even shutdown the machine to get the ugly thing from my sight.
Eventually, I found some app manager and clicked uninstall for unity. My machine rebooted and hangs on the ubuntu spinner. Even the uninstall of unity is broken. This festering turd (unity) needs to be flushed. I ordered my Mac today- it's a sad day for linux.
Lets look at the biggest problem with Unity , and that is if people go looking for help they will find tons of tutorials on GNOME that are now useless for new uses, and we basically have to start all over again. Ya that's going to make people want to switch to Ubuntu.
No,No,No! I HATED netbook remix on my NETBOOK and UNITY just sucks! I ended up using Ubuntu desktop just auto hiding top and bottom panels. If UNITY is Ubuntu's future I'm switching back to windows or maybe mac! Android is linux last hope at hitting a main stream desktop top! Ted stop smoking crack while you work on are desktop! Forget Unity it sucks! WTF try making it easy for new users to set up a printer, scanner stop fixing whats not broken!
@maw88ify because its a gui for gnome 3.0 so its not dropping gnome. you can btw easy switch back to the old gnome-panel. What me bugs more is that at the moment its not possible to get the main gnome 3.0 ui gnome-shell I hope they will ship that as alternitive too.
Gnome-panel what did you mean is not perfekt, its maybe good enough for most. but in linux all gets better step-by-step freezing the desktop for 100 years is not a good idea. Its hard to adapt to new things for people but worth.
@TheBlackiwid What they are really doing is coping Apple, and trying to make a Mac / iPad style GUI for Ubuntu.
Unity is a mobile phone / tablet style OS , and it is not what most people want for the desktop . This is the same thing Apple just did with Mac Lion... but Apple didn't just toss the old desktop in the trash they just added panel ...
It would have been impossible for them to make a new OS , but keep some of the look and feel of Gnome .
@maw88ify Its primary a Netbook-gui not mobile gui. like I said gnome-panel is still there, and if you don´t like it (I dont like it too) you can look to gnome-shell, thats the real future.
gnome 3.0 makes the desktop much more dynamic its in beta status at the moment so give it a few months ;)
@maw88ify but if you are more conservative the next ubuntu will ship gnome-panel too it will be not that difficult to switch to it. You could also stick to the ubuntu-lts versions and wait till gnome 3.0 with gnome-shell or unity gets more mature.
So stupid. Ubuntu classic was one of the best desktops of all time. People were coming around it just takes time sometimes for things to catch on (Even in my computer science department you'd be surprised how many people simply weren't aware of Ubuntu). You didn't need a new desktop creating new if unintended but very real obstacles to people adopting Ubuntu. You simply needed more advertising.
PoorRichardSaunders 2 months ago
I upgraded from 11.04 running Gnome desktop to 11.10. After I saw that unity piece of shit I took 10 mins trying to figure out how to find anything- I couldn't even shutdown the machine to get the ugly thing from my sight.
Eventually, I found some app manager and clicked uninstall for unity. My machine rebooted and hangs on the ubuntu spinner. Even the uninstall of unity is broken. This festering turd (unity) needs to be flushed. I ordered my Mac today- it's a sad day for linux.
waroftheworldseu 3 months ago
Lets look at the biggest problem with Unity , and that is if people go looking for help they will find tons of tutorials on GNOME that are now useless for new uses, and we basically have to start all over again. Ya that's going to make people want to switch to Ubuntu.
maw88ify 10 months ago
No,No,No! I HATED netbook remix on my NETBOOK and UNITY just sucks! I ended up using Ubuntu desktop just auto hiding top and bottom panels. If UNITY is Ubuntu's future I'm switching back to windows or maybe mac! Android is linux last hope at hitting a main stream desktop top! Ted stop smoking crack while you work on are desktop! Forget Unity it sucks! WTF try making it easy for new users to set up a printer, scanner stop fixing whats not broken!
Msiletta1 11 months ago
Pillsbury commercial ? Oh. My sound was muted.
Somebody get this guy a computer so he could show the effects on a screen.
Arenalgarden 1 year ago
Most Ubuntu users I've spoke with told me they strongly dislike Unity. , and believe you should put that time in to making more software.
Gnome , KDE , LXDE , Fluxbox , xfce sorry we don't need any more.
GNOME is perfect, and can be themed to look like anything include Mac.
Why not just make GNOME , and a Unity release ? I mean you're not dropping Kubuntu...
maw88ify 1 year ago
@maw88ify because its a gui for gnome 3.0 so its not dropping gnome. you can btw easy switch back to the old gnome-panel. What me bugs more is that at the moment its not possible to get the main gnome 3.0 ui gnome-shell I hope they will ship that as alternitive too.
Gnome-panel what did you mean is not perfekt, its maybe good enough for most. but in linux all gets better step-by-step freezing the desktop for 100 years is not a good idea. Its hard to adapt to new things for people but worth.
TheBlackiwid 1 year ago
@TheBlackiwid What they are really doing is coping Apple, and trying to make a Mac / iPad style GUI for Ubuntu.
Unity is a mobile phone / tablet style OS , and it is not what most people want for the desktop . This is the same thing Apple just did with Mac Lion... but Apple didn't just toss the old desktop in the trash they just added panel ...
It would have been impossible for them to make a new OS , but keep some of the look and feel of Gnome .
maw88ify 1 year ago
@maw88ify Its primary a Netbook-gui not mobile gui. like I said gnome-panel is still there, and if you don´t like it (I dont like it too) you can look to gnome-shell, thats the real future.
gnome 3.0 makes the desktop much more dynamic its in beta status at the moment so give it a few months ;)
TheBlackiwid 1 year ago
@maw88ify but if you are more conservative the next ubuntu will ship gnome-panel too it will be not that difficult to switch to it. You could also stick to the ubuntu-lts versions and wait till gnome 3.0 with gnome-shell or unity gets more mature.
TheBlackiwid 1 year ago
It is natural to fear change!
jwtalbot 1 year ago
its going to cause some people to get mad
frvfilms 1 year ago