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I don't know if that many devs are really into macs, most I know aren't and those who do are usually because their company uses/issues them one. In some parts i
by JVIDEL 13y ago
I don't know if that many devs are really into macs, most I know aren't and those who do are usually because their company uses/issues them one. In some parts its more peer-pressure than actual convenience. Still unity tries to copy a lot of OSX's look&feel to the point that its just awkward.
I would add that the problem with current ubuntu is that it tries to appeal to both casual and power users and manages to enrage both. Users coming from Windows (still 90% of all PC users) plain hate unity and find it confusing, it used to be that i out of 3 people I showed ubuntu to would install it but after unity I haven't been able to convince anyone because the first thing they see is an OS that makes no sense.
All power users I know prefer even gnome3 to unity, but most stick to KDE and xfce. A lot and I mean a lot have moved to Cinnamon, no surprise there since that environment is awesome, basically what ubuntu should be like. Of course if unity is too mac-like Cinnamon is too windows-like, but it manages to pull a lot of stuff that unity just can't while remaining fairly snappy unlike the sluggishness of the "dash".
- synchronise 13y agoSince Windows 8 started shipping, its users trying out Ubuntu for the first time may be more familiar with Unity due to them both having similar search functions and layout.