Unity breaks basic UI principles

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Dienstag, den 03.05.2011, 19:03 -0700 schrieb Pastor JW:
> > So of course it can continue as it is. I just think it could be better
> > with  one install CD and a choice. But maybe I'm the only one...
> 
> No, not the only one.  What the average user thinks is that each user 
> interface is a separate distro.  It is not.  All of these UIs sit on the 
> Ubuntu engine.  You should not be able to break it by just choosing a different 
> UI.  For some reason or other Gnome users believe they are the only users of 
> Ubuntu.  KDE users think they are the only users of Ubuntu.  Xfce users think 
> they are the only users of Ubuntu and on it goes.  Fact is one machine has no 
> problem at all providing any or all of these!!  All of the desktops can be 
> installed on the machine giving the user his choice on boot up!  Wow!  What a 
> Linux thing to do!!  
not every user has a blueray reader in his PC though :)
to provide all desktop environments and choices on one install media you
would need more than a DVD ;)

the reasons for having separate CDs are simply that 
a) there are many many ubuntu users that pull the isos via dialup, as
well as there are still many users aournd that dont even have DVD
players or hardware that can boot off USB
b) if people want to sell printed media in a box (which you can without
any issues with ubuntu), printing a CD costs about 10% of the price it
costs to print any other media.

so if you dont want to exclude people in the so called "third world"
that often live on old donated HW from "first world countries" and if
you want to make it cheap for people selling boxed ubuntu you cant
easily switch to different media.

if you want more choice, you can just download the DVD, run it in
alternate installer mode and it will give you the choice which desktop
to install.

ciao
	oli