Best Alternative Operating System To Ubuntu?

[Jim Byrnes]

On 06/28/2011 11:06 AM, Hunter Poe wrote:
> Hi this is my first time posting on the list.
> I have used Ubuntu for about a year consistently now, I originally used
> Desktop edition but moved to the Notebook because I use a laptop, when I got
> Unity I was severely disappointed, I think that Unity was not at all the
> right way to go and it will greatly hinder Ubuntu's ability to be adapted by
> non Linux users, due primarily to the abandonment of the menu driven
> interface in favor of the search. Now I am assuming this was done partially
> in response to Microsoft's apparent success in 7 with the search driven
> interface but I don't think this is the right way to go if there is a desire
> to spread Linux here is my reasoning.
> Many people have used Windows for years (unfortunately)
> So people are familiar and know most of the applications they need to on
> Windows as such a search is easier than the old menu driven interface.
> On Linux however new people migrate to it and by consequence have no clue
> whatsoever about the type of application on Ubuntu much less what they are
> called. So when people get to Ubuntu they quickly find themselves unable to
> do anything because they don't know what they are looking for with a search
> driven interface.
> Now with a menu driven interface everything is pretty clearly labeled and
> within a reasonable time you can find anything at all your are looking for.
> That's why I think Ubuntu should consider returning to a menu driven
> interface rather than a search driven one.
>
>

I agree with your analysis.  I don't recall seeing the differences 
between Unity vs Gnome3 vs Gnome2 presented as a menu driven interface 
as opposed to a search driven one, but it sums it up nicely.

So I guess it's not so much that I dislike Unity, as I prefer a menu 
driven interface.

Regards,  Jim