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> it's nowhere near as polished as the traditional Gnome desktop, but everything cool and new started out as something crappy and new Many cool things starting
by daenz 15y ago
> it's nowhere near as polished as the traditional Gnome desktop, but everything cool and new started out as something crappy and new
Many cool things starting out crappy and new doesn't mean that all crappy new things will be cool. I think most people that dislike Unity (myself included) feel like Unity is going in the wrong direction. If pressed, I could point out some really fundamental design issues with Unity, issues that fixing would make Unity less "Unity-like"
Also, I think the introduction of this major change was done in a very polarizing way. It was basically "use this new interface or F-off, maybe there's a way to use the old one, but go figure that out yourself." Making the new interface optional by default would have been way smoother.
- acabal 15y agoI agree that the way it was presented to the community was a big issue. Plus, when people bring genuine complaints to the table, a lot of geekier open-source advocates say, "hey, it's open source, fix it yourself instead of complaining." (Though that's not an Ubuntu-specific problem.) Well, tearing open the guts of something as complex as a DE just to fix, say, the launcher position is just not something I'm going to do. If a distro's attitude is going to be, "if you don't like our half-baked product don't use it, because we're not going to listen to you," then yup, I'm going to go use something else and not recommend that distro any more. All they succeed in doing with that attitude is alienating a former advocate. That's not the way to approach Shuttleworth's goal of X million users by 20-whatever.
- freehunter 15y agoapt-get gnome-shell Linux is built around choice. You have the choice to get rid of Unity.