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"Unity fiasco": any data on the net decrease of ubuntu users caused by unity?

by scotu 14y ago

csense 14y ago
I personally dropped Ubuntu for Linux Mint. I've heard a lot of people say they hate Unity. It's not hard data, but it's anecdotal evidence that there's a substantial set of people that really hate it.
- vidarh 14y ago
  Personally I love it. I had planned on installing a tiling window manager, but after 10 minutes with Unity I decided to stick with it. It's the first Linux GUI I've found ok since Enlightenment 0.16, and the first time since I left the Amiga behind I've had an environment I'd say I'm happy with. And most people I've heard who have used Unity love it. The only people I hear complaining are typically people who expect the Linux desktop to remain static and unchanging the way it was when they first used it. Unity might be a fiasco with a small subset of old Linux users, but Unity or something like it will be essential for Canonical to keep attracting new users, who are expecting polish at the level of OS X rather than at the level of the Linux desktop of a decade ago.
  - Karunamon 14y ago
    >The only people I hear complaining are typically people who expect the Linux desktop to remain static and unchanging the way it was when they first used it. Or who are stuck on older hardware (why was 2d retired, again?)... Or who think it's utterly silly you have to write a INI (.desktop) file to put arbitrary links in the "dock".. Or who think that the interface wastes a lot of space... You've went and generalized a lot of people with legitimate complaints about that DE. Kind of like Ubuntu's developers do.
- bduerst 14y ago
  I like cinnamon, but you can run cinnamon on Ubuntu and don't need Mint. What are the pros of sticking with Linux Mint? Are they performance based?
- mindcrime 14y ago
  I despise Unity. I'm only using it right this minute because our company standard desktop at the $DAYJOB is Ubuntu. Personally I find the state of desktop Linux to be fairly close to abysmal at the moment. I'm not sure we're any better off now than we were with Gnome circa 2000 or so. I had, and still have, high hopes for KDE once Qt went LGPL, and I do run KDE on my personal laptop. It's not bad, but there are some major pieces of software that don't have Qt native versions. sigh
lhnn 14y ago
I do not have scientific data on the subject. I know a lot of people have expressed their disdain for Unity, with not so many expressing affection (though people bitch more than compliment.) I personally switched to Xubuntu and shaped the desktop to act like GNOME 2. There wasn't much reason to do so before Unity; Xubuntu's take on XFCE is almost as heavy as GNOME2 was.

"Unity fiasco": any data on the net decrease of ubuntu users caused by unity?

by scotu 14y ago

"Unity fiasco": any data on the net decrease of ubuntu users caused by unity?

I personally dropped Ubuntu for Linux Mint. I've heard a lot of people say they hate Unity. It's not hard data, but it's anecdotal evidence that there's a substantial set of people that really hate it.

vidarh 14y ago
Personally I love it. I had planned on installing a tiling window manager, but after 10 minutes with Unity I decided to stick with it. It's the first Linux GUI I've found ok since Enlightenment 0.16, and the first time since I left the Amiga behind I've had an environment I'd say I'm happy with. And most people I've heard who have used Unity love it. The only people I hear complaining are typically people who expect the Linux desktop to remain static and unchanging the way it was when they first used it. Unity might be a fiasco with a small subset of old Linux users, but Unity or something like it will be essential for Canonical to keep attracting new users, who are expecting polish at the level of OS X rather than at the level of the Linux desktop of a decade ago.
- Karunamon 14y ago
  >The only people I hear complaining are typically people who expect the Linux desktop to remain static and unchanging the way it was when they first used it. Or who are stuck on older hardware (why was 2d retired, again?)... Or who think it's utterly silly you have to write a INI (.desktop) file to put arbitrary links in the "dock".. Or who think that the interface wastes a lot of space... You've went and generalized a lot of people with legitimate complaints about that DE. Kind of like Ubuntu's developers do.
bduerst 14y ago
I like cinnamon, but you can run cinnamon on Ubuntu and don't need Mint. What are the pros of sticking with Linux Mint? Are they performance based?
mindcrime 14y ago
I despise Unity. I'm only using it right this minute because our company standard desktop at the $DAYJOB is Ubuntu. Personally I find the state of desktop Linux to be fairly close to abysmal at the moment. I'm not sure we're any better off now than we were with Gnome circa 2000 or so. I had, and still have, high hopes for KDE once Qt went LGPL, and I do run KDE on my personal laptop. It's not bad, but there are some major pieces of software that don't have Qt native versions. sigh

lhnn 14y ago

I do not have scientific data on the subject. I know a lot of people have expressed their disdain for Unity, with not so many expressing affection (though people bitch more than compliment.) I personally switched to Xubuntu and shaped the desktop to act like GNOME 2. There wasn't much reason to do so before Unity; Xubuntu's take on XFCE is almost as heavy as GNOME2 was.