was: ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity

[Ryan Gauger]

On 06/04/2012 07:52 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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.
That is not true. The average computer user does not even know 
Ubuntu/Linux exists (unless they see one of the online ads, which appear 
to only appear online on computers already running Ubuntu, must be a 
flaw, or just me). If you know Macs at all, Unity should still take you 
at least a few minutes to an hour to get used to. After all, Unity is 
not OS X. But, it does have many features OS X has, like global menu and 
launcher (which basically has the same functionality as the dock in OS 
X). I also think the average computer user uses a Windows-based 
computer, not a Mac. The average computer user doesn't install any other 
operating system on their computer, and just uses the one that came 
pre-installed on his PC. Unless you mean the properly skilled computer 
user as a computer user who has had quite a bit of time figuring things 
out and has downloaded Ubuntu. I agree with you then.
>
> 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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