Explain to me again why Unity is so great...

[Graham Watkins]

On 23/04/11 06:17, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:38:48 -0500
> Shaun Jones<mister.s.jones at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Xubuntu will give you the classic style your looking for plus there
>> are other options. For example you could use icewm with gnome apps
>> and this works quite well. There are many alternatives out there,
>> unity gnome 3 are all aiming at the tablet and mobile platform and I
>> don't think this way of thinking is gonna change. If you come to the
>> Xubuntu side ill see ya there moved awhile ago and haven't looked
>> back.
>>
>> Mister Jones
> For an alternative desktop environment to GNOME, KDE and XFCE4, I
> suggest trying out LXDE.  It's in the repositories, just like the
> others and all those window managers.  There are ways around /having/
> to use Unity, even after the move to GNOME 3 and Unity.
>
> Cybe R. Wizard
Everything I've read about Unity makes it seem like something I would 
wish to avoid.  However, my experience of gnome-shell (which seems like 
KDE4 all over again - a total smegging disaster) suggests that Unity may 
be the lesser evil.  I've been playing around with LXDE and it seems 
pretty good so I may choose that option if I ever decide to move to 
11.04.  (I'm likely to stay with 10.4 till the last possible moment.)   
I'm also messing around with Trinity Maverick in a VM and using KDE3 
takes me back to my old Mandriva days.  My ideal solution however, would 
be for someone to bring out something similar to Trinity Maverick, but 
using Gnome 2. Anyone know of such a project?

Like the man said, there are no shortage of choices for anyone who 
doesn't want to use Unity (which apart from anything else seems to be 
causing disunity).

Cheers,

Graham