Unity ROCKS!!!

[Ben Darby]

* Liam Proven (lproven at gmail.com) wrote:
> Ubuntu is a small minority OS. Its target is people coming from other
> OSs, *not* people coming from older versions of Ubuntu. There are a
> billion-odd Windows users out there and only a dozen or 2 million
> existing Ubuntu users.

So where do those people coming from older versions of Ubuntu, that have
helped make it the success it is today go? I've found that the main
problem in getting people to come across to Linux isn't that it was
harder to use or wasn't visually appealing. The main issue is that they
can't use their applications and the Linux alternatives are either
incompatible or not up to scratch. Dressing up the UI won't do anything
to bring those users across if that is their primary aim.

> It's not meant to convert existing users. It's meant to bring new
> people to Ubuntu by making it simple and accessible and
> easily-learned. Remember it came from netbooks, simple internet-access
> devices rather than full-function PCs.

A lot of the arguments for Unity are that it is nicer on a small screened
netbook or tablet and that is great, but there was already UNR for that.
Now all the people with "full-function PCs" are stuck with an OS
designed for a tiny computer.

-- 
ben darby <bendarb at gmail.com>