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I too have been put off by Unity when it appeared, and moved to Mac. It's sad that they lost so many people, they were on the path to become the leader OS, and
by tajen 10y ago
I too have been put off by Unity when it appeared, and moved to Mac. It's sad that they lost so many people, they were on the path to become the leader OS, and not only among the Linux community. Did they even gain more of the target users (tablets) they hoped to reach with Unity?
But there's always one guy to say "Hey, I like Unity, plus you can always configure Gnome or get Kubuntu if you like" and the mere doubt of a debate dillutes the elephant in the room, which is that Unity wasn't capable of generating massive adoption, as opposed to most other DEs. Yep, some people liked Unity, but it's only some people, that's the problem.
- nol13 10y agoIt is a shame. Their hand was kind of forced by GNOME 3 at the time but the damage was done either way.
- KKKKkkkk1 10y agoSorry to be that guy, but I like Unity. My vie is that Unity is Canonical's way of integrating the good features of MacOS into the Linux desktop and moving away from the Windows-lookalike strategy the GNOME project used to have. So I would argue that if people migrated from Ubuntu to MacOS, it's not because they don't like Unity, but rather because they like MacOS or Apple machines in general, and Unity was Canonical's response precisely to that.
- tajen 10y agoI didn't even know MacOS when I migrated. I just did it because I literally couldn't work anymore in Ubuntu. I just knew some people could get the job done in Mac, which doesn't happen to be the case with Ubuntu.
- IE6 10y agoNot doubting you but has anyone produced metrics to show a drop off in adoption, install, usage of Ubuntu after Unity came around? I was one of those people but I suspect I can't be the majority. Today I use it and honestly dunno why I was so resistant. On a dev box, however, I'll use i3 or something.
- nol13 10y agoDistrowatch #1: Mint