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Yes, I've been using Ubuntu exclusively on the desktop for about 6 years now. I recently bought a new laptop (from LinuxCertified.com) and tried out 11.10 (Uni

by fexl 15y ago

Yes, I've been using Ubuntu exclusively on the desktop for about 6 years now. I recently bought a new laptop (from LinuxCertified.com) and tried out 11.10 (Unity) for the first time. At first I liked it pretty well, but a few days later realized that I really missed the GNOME task bar, where I could see everything running at a glance, and click to open an active window, and click again to minimize it. That feels indispensable to my work flow, so I'm logging in with GNOME Classic now instead of Unity. Although I commend Mark Shuttleworth and his crew on their achievements with Unity, I just gotta have that task bar. Right now the laptop feels like a dream machine -- the keyboard is perfect and I'm a master with the touchpad. Also, the desktop behaves so beautifully that it makes my wife slightly jealous, so when her Windows computer gives up the ghost I think she's gonna want the Linux desktop.

loboman 15y ago
Talking about wives... My wife has been using Ubuntu for some years already. For a while she went back to Windows, until she found the countless problems with Windows bugs, spyware, adware, etc. again. That was the last time she used Windows on her computer. Maybe the year of the Linux Desktop already happened some time ago.
- akeck 15y ago
  Regarding perennial Year-of-the-Linux-Desktop talk, I think it's as Gibson says: "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." I got my wife a Dell Mini 9 a few years ago running Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS. Her response was "This is almost Mac-like". After the initial updates, all the hardware worked correctly, including sleep-on-close. She then declared that she didn't want Windows anything in the future. We've not had a Windows machine since. People act as if Linux will be "on the desktop" all at once. I think instead it's been a matter of various persons' comfort levels being met as the Linux desktop experience gets continually refined. For my wife, 8.04.1 hit the mark. For others, more recent revisions fit their needs.
bergie 15y ago
There is a GNOME Shell extension at extensions.gnome.org that gives a list of running windows to the top panel. Slightly tweaked version that looks cleaner: https://github.com/cannonerd/gnome-shell-windowlist https://github.com/cannonerd/gnome-shell-windowlist

by fexl 15y ago

loboman 15y ago

Talking about wives... My wife has been using Ubuntu for some years already. For a while she went back to Windows, until she found the countless problems with Windows bugs, spyware, adware, etc. again. That was the last time she used Windows on her computer. Maybe the year of the Linux Desktop already happened some time ago.

akeck 15y ago
Regarding perennial Year-of-the-Linux-Desktop talk, I think it's as Gibson says: "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." I got my wife a Dell Mini 9 a few years ago running Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS. Her response was "This is almost Mac-like". After the initial updates, all the hardware worked correctly, including sleep-on-close. She then declared that she didn't want Windows anything in the future. We've not had a Windows machine since. People act as if Linux will be "on the desktop" all at once. I think instead it's been a matter of various persons' comfort levels being met as the Linux desktop experience gets continually refined. For my wife, 8.04.1 hit the mark. For others, more recent revisions fit their needs.

bergie 15y ago

There is a GNOME Shell extension at extensions.gnome.org that gives a list of running windows to the top panel. Slightly tweaked version that looks cleaner: https://github.com/cannonerd/gnome-shell-windowlist https://github.com/cannonerd/gnome-shell-windowlist