was: ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity

[Liam Proven]

On 4 June 2012 13:20, Ryan Gauger <rtgkid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "What's to get used to?" - Unity. It may not look like much to get used to
> to you, but trust me, a person who is switching from Lucid to Persistant
> will probably be completely shocked if he has not been following the Ubuntu
> news.

True, it is quite different - but very /very/ far from totally different.

> The Unity desktop environment is not like any other

Not true. It is very /very/ like Mac OS X.

The sign of a true techie, a competent professional computer user, is
that they know how to use more than one type of computer. The more,
the better, up to a point. But today, any properly skilled computer
user should know Windows, Mac OS X and at least one Unix, typically
Linux.

If you know Macs at all, Unity is a piece of cake.

>  - it makes tasks
> faster,

Not sure about that. They're all quick in the hands of a skilled user.

> but they are slower for the first week or so while you get adjusted
> to the new desktop environment.

A week or so? Really? As long as that? I'd have said an hour or two, myself.

> Unity is modern, more modern than the other
> desktop environments, including GNOME Shell.

I am not sure what "modern" means in UI terms, but Unity is based on
Mac OS X with a hint of Windows, whereas GNOME 2 was almost all
Windows with a hint of Mac. Mac OS X is based on NeXTstep, a 1980s
desktop. So it's not very new, really; its roots go deep.

> Since Unity is not like any
> other DE,

Already addressed that.

> there are things unique to it, like HUD.

The HUD is a new feature in Precise; it was not present in any of the
previous 3 or 4 releases of Unity. As such, I would not call it a
Unity feature.

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