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I sorta said the same thing with 11.04 (not 11.10, I liked 11.10 quite a bit), but I've been using 12.04 as my primary system for quite some time now. I simply

I sorta said the same thing with 11.04 (not 11.10, I liked 11.10 quite a bit), but I've been using 12.04 as my primary system for quite some time now. I simply cannot go back to another system anymore. Ubuntu and, specifically, Unity have completely changed and improved my workflow. Unity is completely able to be keyboard driven (AWESOME!), gets out of my way (I autohide the launcher on my laptop, but keep it out on my desktop with 24" screen). Simply put, every other system feels old and dated at this point without the innovation that Unity has brought. Even OSX. You mention "thinking about your OS". My experience is exactly opposite of this. I never think about my system with Ubuntu/Unity. Everything just works and gets out of my way, but is easily invoked when I need it (super, alt, super+<whicheverkeybinding>) and that is how I want it! Recently I had to go back to OSX for a bit when I was doing something for a friend and, besides from some nice UI polishes that were really well done in OSX, everything else was annoying and I started to realize how bad OSX really was. Maybe "bad" is a strong term, but dated might be more appropriate. Either way, I love Ubuntu and Unity and I won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

mattbriggs 15y ago
I have 11.10 on my work laptop right now, since we use ubuntu at work. my experiences are 2 hours battery life (with jupiter), windows on the same machine gets 6-8 hours around 1 in 5 times it crashes when coming back from hiberation it never shows me the login dialog after turning the monitor off, instead i get my desktop in a much lower resolution, and random artifacts of the windows that were on the screen when the machine turned off the display fonts look like garbage compared to osx trackpad support is a joke compared to osx. I use the keyboard primarily, and things don't make anywhere near as much sense as osx. For example, c-c to copy test, alt-tab to switch to terminal, c-shift-t to create a new tab, and c-shift-v to paste the text. on osx, it is cmd-c, cmd-tab, cmd-t (just like every other app), cmd-v (just like every other app). I don't appreciate constantly jumping modifier keys for even the simplest workflows, and the wild inconsistencies in short cuts on ubuntu. There is nothing that even comes close to omni-focus for gtd, photoshop for image editing, 1password for account management, colorschemer for color choice/manipulation, ia writer for creative writing, git tower for git frontends, reeder for blog aggregation, keynote for slide decks, etc etc. I have found alternatives for these things, but honestly, they all suck in comparison to what is available on osx. This is probably the biggest dissatisfaction with the os, frustration with every app I use that is not chrome or emacs. Not saying osx is perfect (I could do a top ten list of things that annoy me there), but given a choice I would probably use windows over linux, and osx over windows. I am hoping 12.04 will at least give me battery life that will last a long meeting, but im not holding my breath.

mattbriggs 15y ago

I have 11.10 on my work laptop right now, since we use ubuntu at work. my experiences are 2 hours battery life (with jupiter), windows on the same machine gets 6-8 hours around 1 in 5 times it crashes when coming back from hiberation it never shows me the login dialog after turning the monitor off, instead i get my desktop in a much lower resolution, and random artifacts of the windows that were on the screen when the machine turned off the display fonts look like garbage compared to osx trackpad support is a joke compared to osx. I use the keyboard primarily, and things don't make anywhere near as much sense as osx. For example, c-c to copy test, alt-tab to switch to terminal, c-shift-t to create a new tab, and c-shift-v to paste the text. on osx, it is cmd-c, cmd-tab, cmd-t (just like every other app), cmd-v (just like every other app). I don't appreciate constantly jumping modifier keys for even the simplest workflows, and the wild inconsistencies in short cuts on ubuntu. There is nothing that even comes close to omni-focus for gtd, photoshop for image editing, 1password for account management, colorschemer for color choice/manipulation, ia writer for creative writing, git tower for git frontends, reeder for blog aggregation, keynote for slide decks, etc etc. I have found alternatives for these things, but honestly, they all suck in comparison to what is available on osx. This is probably the biggest dissatisfaction with the os, frustration with every app I use that is not chrome or emacs. Not saying osx is perfect (I could do a top ten list of things that annoy me there), but given a choice I would probably use windows over linux, and osx over windows. I am hoping 12.04 will at least give me battery life that will last a long meeting, but im not holding my breath.