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You're going to get flack for that opinion, but you have a point. The truth is, Unity sucks. A lot. Even after you get used to it. It was a poor decision by a

You're going to get flack for that opinion, but you have a point. The truth is, Unity sucks. A lot. Even after you get used to it. It was a poor decision by a set of developers out of touch with reality or their user-base, and it's only beginning to recover and move in the right direction slowly. Everyone I know is migrating to Mint and Xfce/KDE4/Cinnamon (Gnome 3 fork), and with good reason. OSX is still way ahead of the curve, but Linux (not necessarily only Ubuntu) still has a chance. The idea of Linux is still great: we're hackers, so if you feel there's a problem, help fix it. Not easy, but the fact that you can is pretty cool.

davidjgraph 14y ago
Oh yeah, the Ubuntu fanboys will be busy. But seriously, I need my main work machine to just work (TM). I need audio to work without a 4 second lag on skype (I know that's skype's fault). I need Eclipse to default to fonts that I don't notice, rather than spending 20 minutes tweaking. I need Teamviewer to work correctly when I have 2 monitors on Ubuntu. I know that's off-topic, but I really think everyone/thing Ubuntu related should be focusing on the fact that the desktop doesn't cut it, the OA is off-topic if you like. When you write software, you write it first, properly, then worry about optimization when it's functional (with a few exceptions). If it doesn't do its job, who cares that it can unzip twice as fast.
- wtetzner 14y ago
  "I really think everyone/thing Ubuntu related should be focusing on the fact that the desktop doesn't cut it" So, the problem with this is that what you think is important might not be what other Ubuntu users think is important. Also, I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my MacBook Pro, and it _just worked_ (TM) out of the box. "If it doesn't do its job, who cares that it can unzip twice as fast." Unless of course you're day to day work involves unzipping large amounts of data, in which case it ends up being important.

davidjgraph 14y ago

Oh yeah, the Ubuntu fanboys will be busy. But seriously, I need my main work machine to just work (TM). I need audio to work without a 4 second lag on skype (I know that's skype's fault). I need Eclipse to default to fonts that I don't notice, rather than spending 20 minutes tweaking. I need Teamviewer to work correctly when I have 2 monitors on Ubuntu. I know that's off-topic, but I really think everyone/thing Ubuntu related should be focusing on the fact that the desktop doesn't cut it, the OA is off-topic if you like. When you write software, you write it first, properly, then worry about optimization when it's functional (with a few exceptions). If it doesn't do its job, who cares that it can unzip twice as fast.

wtetzner 14y ago
"I really think everyone/thing Ubuntu related should be focusing on the fact that the desktop doesn't cut it" So, the problem with this is that what you think is important might not be what other Ubuntu users think is important. Also, I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my MacBook Pro, and it _just worked_ (TM) out of the box. "If it doesn't do its job, who cares that it can unzip twice as fast." Unless of course you're day to day work involves unzipping large amounts of data, in which case it ends up being important.