<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 05/01/2011 01:32 PM, Dick Dowdell wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:BANLkTi=aZ+k=84hmVPnWhCNtMrMi6U-NBQ@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Justin Stanczak <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:rizenine@gmail.com" target="_blank">rizenine@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Great work all. It's like a blend of windows, mac, and gnome in one. I can't wait to update and see all the improvements. Also is there a general discussion list? -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote> </div> Hi all, Change (progress) is hard. Unity is different from the Ubuntu we know. I am, however, astounded by the anti-Unity anger expressed on this list. </blockquote> Astounded? <blockquote cite="mid:BANLkTi=aZ+k=84hmVPnWhCNtMrMi6U-NBQ@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> I've been a software developer for over 30 years---from the early IBM mainframes and DEC Minis, through Macs and PCs, to the Cloud, iOS, and Android. Not all innovation has been successful, but much of it has. I do know that if I had the same reaction to change as the Unity haters, I would not still be employed. </blockquote> I too am a fossil. I started doing IBM 360 assembler in the late 60's. I saw a lot of change that was NOT innovative. If made to use it, I usually walked. <blockquote cite="mid:BANLkTi=aZ+k=84hmVPnWhCNtMrMi6U-NBQ@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> Anyway, one can still log on in Ubuntu Classic mode if one doesn't wish to learn something new. </blockquote> So, in your opinion, anyone who has issues with Unity is publicly confessing that they don't wish to learn something new. You make the same erroneous assumptions that the decision makers at Ubuntu make. I repeat what I said above: not all change is innovative. What has irritated me is the broken promises. I believed the original hype about the meaning of the word "Ubuntu" and how it was to be a platform that was usable throughout the third world. That said to me that is was to remain accessible to users of older/smaller machines. Now we see in a single leap a need for the latest and best in hardware which is a broken promise, implied if not explicit. Personally, I have no need for <blockquote cite="mid:BANLkTi=aZ+k=84hmVPnWhCNtMrMi6U-NBQ@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> Regards, <div>Dick Dowdell <div>H/O: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:508-528-4018" value="+15085284018" target="_blank">508-528-4018</a> Mobile: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:508-498-7919" value="+15084987919" target="_blank">508-498-7919</a></div> </div> </blockquote> </body> </html>