Jesus! I hate 11.04, WTF happened? This is awful. Somebody's head should be smacked!

[Pongo A. Pan]

On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 18:45 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> For the other folks; yes I test Alphas & Betas regularly & generally
> spend a considerable amount of time testing and filing bug reports on
> those to help pre-release. However I just don't have any inclination to
> do so with the Unity desktop interface. I'll leave my other comments
> regarding Unity for the sounder list, but I suspect come April this list
> is going to get *very* busy.
> 

Very likely!  I installed the first beta on another computer, fooled
around with Unity a bit and then did something dumb and couldn't boot
anymore.  I grub-rescued my main installation and forgot about it.  When
beta two came out I tried it and couldn't get the nVidia proprietary
driver to load, no matter what, so no compiz and no Unity.

I had to travel a bit, and when wife picked me up at the airport she
said casually, "Oh, I made a new box."  I think she just installed 10.10
and did the CLI dist-upgrade to get here to beta-3 land.  So, now I have
a new computer which is wildly more powerful than I need and which seems
to run the Unity interface very well.  I guess building new boxes for
which we have no actual need will keep her out of the pool hall and away
from the racetrack, and figuring out the point of Unity will do the same
for me.

I came to GNOME when KDE 3.5 went away because things suddenly got
difficult and obscure.  Unity seems to have taken the same approach.
Two mouse clicks to change desktops, can't find applications I run all
the time. etc., etc.  I know it's not done yet, but it does seem to me
to be a pointless change that will create user anxiety.   The many
people who will have trouble with compiz will feel left out and the
people who get Unity running will be confused by the new paradigm.  

But then again, I'm just an old guy who doesn't understand the fad for
Ben Franklin eyeglasses either.  Maybe this will bring in all the kids,
I dunno.  I guess we want the kids, maybe.  Stand by for storms.


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