Desktop Organization

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 10 Aug 2014 16:38:19 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On 10 August 2014 15:53, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> > Yes on one level.  OTHO, I am not sure how well the Unity desktop is going to
> > be received by either *traditional* UNIX/Linux users OR ex-MS-Windows users.
> > *I* don't like it -- I have been using some form of UNIX/Linux for like 40
> > years.  (I don't partitularly like (Mac)OS-X either.)
> 
> 
> Well, that one will run and run. I like it a lot myself, and despite
> the switch, Ubuntu remains the #1 desktop/laptop distro. It's a
> simple, easy interface and it does everything I need.
> 
> And FWIW, I'm an old-timer too -- I've been using Windows since v2.0
> and Unix since SCO Xenix 2 on an IBM PC-AT.

Well *I* *never* used any version of MS-Windows.  The first 'desktop' system I 
used was DECWindows on a VaxStation 2000 running VMS.  I then moved to 
DECWindows on DECStations running Ultrix.  I now use FVWM2 in MWM mode on 
Linux machines (CentOS 5 is the current version I use).

('DECWindows' was DEC's rebranding of X11/Motif and used the Motif Window 
Manager [MWM].)

> 
> But the Win95 desktop only came along in 1995. There was nothing else
> like it before then.
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/03/thank_microsoft_for_linux_desktop_fail/
> 
> So while I like the Win9x UI fine, I'm not wedded to it. I was using
> GUIs 6 or 7 years before it came out.
> 
> If people want to choose something else -- something that is a rip-off
> of the Win95 interface -- they are free to do so, of course, and there
> are lots of distros to accomodate that. In the Ubuntu family, Lubuntu
> and Kubuntu look like Win9x out of the box, and Xubuntu can easily be
> made to.
> 
> Outside of the official remixes, there are Linux Mint with Cinnamon --
> another direct rip-off -- and Mint with Maté which, like XFCE, can be
> made to look Windows-like, plus Zorin OS, Peppermint Linux, and even
> arguably Bodhi Linux with Englightenment 17 which comes with several
> Windows-like layouts.
> 
> But I think there is a strong case to make for just trying the "real
> thing", the official standard Ubuntu, and seeing if the user can
> adapt. Suggesting adding multiple desktops to a single install is
> /not/ newbie-friendly!
> 
> 
> 

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