Ubuntu to use its netbook Unity interface in 11.04, not GNOME 3

[David Gerard]

On 26 October 2010 11:33, Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have to agree with you Kevin. While I've never seen the Netbook
> Remix so I'm speaking from a purely ignorant stance, I think it would
> take a *lot* to get dedicated users to move away from Ubuntu and I
> doubt that this is going to be that tipping point. Sure, we're going
> to see some move away, but those of us who support the distro will
> stick with it for the long haul I think.
[...]
> Canonical has shown an absolute passion for the UX with Ubuntu and I
> believe that, whatever they do with Natty, is going to be done to push
> the distro forward in a good way.


Indeed. Some of the plans for 10.04 were worrying, but it's turned out
nicely solid as far as I'm concerned. 10.10 has been just fine too.[*]

I don't like the netbook interface that much - even on my netbook I
use the 2.x interface - but I'd be *amazed* if Ubuntu started sucking
enough in usability to jump ship.


- d.




[*] modulo an upgrade from 10.04 on a Dell C510 on the weekend during
which Metacity died, making it actually impossible to bring the window
asking what to do with grub.conf to the front to click on. Had to ssh
in, kill the upgrade process and fix it from the command line. ALWAYS
install openssh-server. ALWAYS.