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I decided to stop worrying and love the Unity some time between 12.04 and 12.10, and I've gotten quite used to it. I use the Radiance theme, which is brighter a
by RyanMcGreal 13y ago
I decided to stop worrying and love the Unity some time between 12.04 and 12.10, and I've gotten quite used to it. I use the Radiance theme, which is brighter and cleaner looking than the default Ambiance theme. (And I have my minimize/maximize/close buttons on the right side - some habits die hard.)
I tried Mint but found it clunky and unstable. For a while I used Ubuntu with the gnome-classic desktop, but it got harder to make it work with everything else, which kept changing. I also tried Cinnamon but found it extremely unstable - my desktop would crash routinely.
Unity is pretty good and keeps getting better. My other main request would be to make the icons smaller - the smallest default size is 24px.
In unrelated news, I was happy to discover after upgrading to 13.04 that my phone, a Galaxy S3 running Android 4.1.1, now auto-mounts into the filesystem via MTP. (It occurs to me that my gratitude for something as basic as plugging a device into USB and having it Just Work may be a warning sign of Stockholm Syndrome. Yet it also occurs to me that I haven't paid a penny for Ubuntu since I first installed version 8.04, so I think on balance that my gratitude is well-placed.)
- bornhuetter 13y agoThanks for the tip on Radiance - I found Ambiance too dark, but Radiance does look nicer (more similar to what I like about Mint). I think I'm going to give 13.04 another try tonight. I used to Ubuntu Tweak to change a few things like making the dock extra small, but that seems to be discontinued. Do you know of any other utility for tweaking Unity (such as moving the buttons to the right side)?