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Its also a good side by side graphic comparison of both OSes. With a bit of effort, Unity could look much better.

by wineisfine 10y ago

mrweasel 10y ago
It really could, and it really needs to. The default looks is a pretty sure way of ensuring that people who are browsing for an alternative to the Mac aren't going to pick Ubuntu. It's a matter of personal taste, but does anyone honestly look at the default Ubuntu desktop and think "Well, that's just the pretties desktop I've ever seen". Logically it shouldn't matter, the look has little influence on the functionality, but I really think the orange, black, and purple look has turned people away from, if not Linux, then certainly from Ubuntu.
- pkd 10y ago
  I personally feel that 80% of the people complain about Unity because of the default color scheme. Switch it with some shade of nice blue and everybody likes it.
- aplaice 10y ago
  > but does anyone honestly look at the default Ubuntu desktop and think "Well, that's just the pretties desktop I've ever seen". Data point of one, but yes, I have — I genuinely think that Unity (>=12.04) looks better than any of Windows 7, Windows XP, and KDE4 (all of which I had used extensively), MacOS and Gnome-3 (which I had used sporadically) and Windows 8 and 10, (which I've only seen but not used). IMO it's also at least as functional as any of the above. I particularly liked the fact that they "got" the fact that one can have limited vertical screen space and for example the menus of a maximized window merge with the top status bar. Tastes obviously differ widely.
- Shorel 10y ago
  The only thing I would change (and in fact I have done it a couple of times) is make the top bar transparent to have a full background view when there are no windows. Yes, in fact that dull gray is the only ugly thing. The launcher bar on the left is very good looking by itself.

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Its also a good side by side graphic comparison of both OSes. With a bit of effort, Unity could look much better.

by wineisfine 10y ago

Its also a good side by side graphic comparison of both OSes. With a bit of effort, Unity could look much better.

mrweasel 10y ago
It really could, and it really needs to. The default looks is a pretty sure way of ensuring that people who are browsing for an alternative to the Mac aren't going to pick Ubuntu. It's a matter of personal taste, but does anyone honestly look at the default Ubuntu desktop and think "Well, that's just the pretties desktop I've ever seen". Logically it shouldn't matter, the look has little influence on the functionality, but I really think the orange, black, and purple look has turned people away from, if not Linux, then certainly from Ubuntu.
- pkd 10y ago
  I personally feel that 80% of the people complain about Unity because of the default color scheme. Switch it with some shade of nice blue and everybody likes it.
- aplaice 10y ago
  > but does anyone honestly look at the default Ubuntu desktop and think "Well, that's just the pretties desktop I've ever seen". Data point of one, but yes, I have — I genuinely think that Unity (>=12.04) looks better than any of Windows 7, Windows XP, and KDE4 (all of which I had used extensively), MacOS and Gnome-3 (which I had used sporadically) and Windows 8 and 10, (which I've only seen but not used). IMO it's also at least as functional as any of the above. I particularly liked the fact that they "got" the fact that one can have limited vertical screen space and for example the menus of a maximized window merge with the top status bar. Tastes obviously differ widely.
- Shorel 10y ago
  The only thing I would change (and in fact I have done it a couple of times) is make the top bar transparent to have a full background view when there are no windows. Yes, in fact that dull gray is the only ugly thing. The launcher bar on the left is very good looking by itself.