Desktop Organization
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Sun Aug 10 14:58:40 UTC 2014
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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