(OT) Explain to me again why Unity is so great...

[Christoph Bier]

Alan Pope schrieb am 22.04.2011 23:42:

> On 22 April 2011 22:27, Zach <zach at zcsmith.com> wrote:
>> The direction that Linux has always been about choice and you have some
>> propeller heads at Canonical who have decided that Unity is the way to go
>> and everything else be damned.
> 
> Steady on Zach.
> 
> 
>>  A bit of an exaggeration perhaps but you get
>> the idea.  I know just about everything in the world of computers has an
>> expiration date but getting rid of something when it's far from its time to
>> expire just for the sake of replacing it with some newfangled gadget is
>> unproductive and in most cases, a poor business practice.
>>
> 
> You (and many others) characterise the change in the desktop to Unity
> as 'change for changes sake' but that seems to undermine the hard work
> done by skilled 'propeller heads' as you put it. These people have
> done some considerable analysis and development work to figure out
> what actually might be 'better' for the end user. Whilst that's not a
> utopia, best for everyone, there's certainly an argument that it could
> actually be a pretty decent desktop.

[...]

> You specifically said it's about choice. The choices are there. Take them.

That's why my Mac is gathering dust in the corner---because Apple
thinks to know what's best for me. And just in case they were wrong
I'd like to have choices *within* the environment I'm used to.
Changing the environment---i.e. swichting to a different Linux
distribution---is sink or swim and not freedom of choice, IMHO. But
one of the most important and marvelous aspects of FOSS is
participation, at least for me.

Useability is always also a matter of what one is used to. Changing
a desktop environment in such a radical way it is done with GNOME 3
and Unity is not user friendly, IMHO. To be honest I'm very
disappointed by Ubuntu because many Ubuntu users were ignored. About
seven years ago I switched from Debian to Ubuntu and was very happy
with this decision. My wife, my father and some friends followed.
Introducing Unity to them is just ridiculous---they have no need for
it, neither I do. I'm very glad that I couldn't establish Ubuntu at
work. At least with 11.10 my boss and colleagues would be
questioning my sanity ;-). Unity may be a good choice for beginners
that never used a computer before ...

Just my 2 cents

Christoph
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