Unity ROCKS not!!!

[Billie Walsh]

On 05/09/2011 09:40 AM, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> On 05/09/2011 12:45 AM, Douglas S. Saylor wrote:
>
> [snip]
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>> I think there seems, with some, they want what they have/had. They don't
>> want new/better cause they got THIS figured out. I get it, sorta, but
>> newer=better pretty much 99% of the time that just IS the reality. Is
>> there a learning curve that might be uncomfortable? Of course. But I
>> guess if learning new stuff is considered a "problem" ...I'm gunna have
>> to agree to disagree with those folks.
>>
>>>> Kill it how? By no longer supporting a superseded piece of code? Well
>>>> what else should they do?
>>>>
>>>> Why would a modern distro cling to outdated legacy code?
>>>>
>>>> Seriously, I'm curious, why?
>> I guess this goes to some people wanting what they got without change so
>> they never have to learn new stuff<sigh>. I guess if you like old
>> motorcycles, cars, etc, you can do that. Computers, software ...that
>> world is obsolete in 6-months!
>
> It has nothing to do with what's "new," but that what is new is of lower
> functionality
> and configurability than that which was replaced. It is never a good
> thing to remove
> them.....period! For example, take a good long look at the new KDE for
> an example
> of all the graphic "goodies" many want yet with the configurability and
> functionality
> that is mandated by more than a casual user who only reads email and web
> pages.
>
> Fred
>
>

If you think back a couple years or so, when KDE 4.x was first 
"released" it completely sucked. It was pretty much in a beta state, if 
not alpha. Now you point to it as a good example. With KDE 4.x there was 
no option to revert to the older version until the new one "grew up". At 
least for the near future you can revert to Gnome if Unity doesn't work 
for you. I say to at least give Unity a chance instead of going off half 
cocked.

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