Ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity and installing GNOME

[chris]

On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 21:08 +0000, Robert Spanjaard wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 08:44:40 -0500, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> 
> > OK since you asked.  Here are the main reasons I have not upgraded from
> > 10.04 to 12.04 on my desktop.  I have had Unity running on my laptop
> > since it was released trying to "get used to it".
> > 
> > I like having the panel at the bottom of the screen where I can see at a
> > glance what I have running and in what window it is running.  I haven't
> > been able to do this in Unity yet.
> > 
> > I like the menus to be on the apps window not disconnected at the top of
> > the screen.  If I have a small sized window at the bottom of the screen
> > it seems foolish to have to move the cursor to the top of the screen to
> > activate a menu.
> > 
> > I don't like the HUD idea.  If I am starting to use a new program the
> > first thing I do is pulldown all the menus to see what is available and
> > then look at the preferences to see what is configurable. It seems to me
> > HUD would make this difficult.
> > 
> > Those are specific reasons. In general I just don't want to have to
> > remember another bunch of keystrokes to operate the OS. Typing and
> > searching is all well and good if you know what you are looking for.  If
> > you don't seeing it in a menu sure helps.
> 
> I second that. And to add some more: when you have a single application 
> with multiple windows, or need to work with multiple workspaces, Unity's 
> sidebar is slower than the old panel. With the old panel, a single click 
> was enough to activate any window or workspace. Unity takes two clicks, 
> and a pause in between, because you need to bring up the overview of 
> windows first.
> I regularly work with multiple windows in a single application (most 
> notably Gimp, Nautilus and Firefox) so Unity really slowed down my 
> productivity.
> 
> Unity 3D also slows down the graphics card (an old onboard HD3200 on my 
> desktop). With Unity 3D, OpenGL-apps were noticably slower, and my 
> computer was unable to play HD-movies smoothly. This was no problem in 
> 10.04 (Gnome 2). I tried Unity 2D for a while which fixed this problem, 
> but all the other problems mentioned above persisted.
> 
> Also, while this wasn't an issue on my desktop, Unity was a real resource 
> hog on my netbook (N450, 1GB), even the 2D version. The netbook runs much 
> smoother with Xubuntu because it uses less memory, and therefor less 
> swap. And because I wanted to use the same DE on both systems, I switched 
> the desktop as well.
> 
> So for me, Unity was a good reason to switch to Xubuntu, after having 
> used Ubuntu for seven years. I gave it a fair chance, tried it for about 
> a month, but for me Unity really was a step *backwards*.
> 
> -- 
> Regards, Robert                                      http://www.arumes.com
> 
> 

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