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I hope they fix the part where Unity is crashy, slow, and has a really sucky user interface. I mean, seriously, Unity is a piece of garbage. You have to look
by csense 13y ago
I hope they fix the part where Unity is crashy, slow, and has a really sucky user interface.
I mean, seriously, Unity is a piece of garbage. You have to look up some magical key combination to do something as simple as launching multiple instances of an application. It's as bad as the Mac [1] -- designed to cater to users who aren't smart enough to understand the concept of "multiple instances of an application."
In order to launch something, you have to search for it -- WTF? I don't want to search for my application, I know what application I want to run! Let me run it dammit!
That whole "no menu you can browse and discover what's installed on your system" is a huge barrier, especially to new users to the Linux ecosystem, because how are you supposed to know the default email client is called Evolution, or your spreadsheet is "LibreOffice Calc"? If there's a comprehensive, categorized menu of all installed applications, you can look through it to, you know, browse what's on your system.
Unity is supposed to be good for noobs. I probably have way more understanding of computer fundamentals than anyone who fits in the "noob" category so I probably have a better chance of figuring out what the UI's trying to do, I probably have way more tolerance for crappy, clunky UI's than most noobs [2], and every time I've tried Unity I've usually uninstalled it within a day. If Unity sucks too much for me to handle, the only noobs I can see sticking with it are those who've never used a computer before and have no idea that it's possible to do better.
[1] Sorry if this isn't up to date. I don't use Macs much; the last time I used a Mac was sometime around 2004.
[2] I played a lot of DOS games in the 1990's. Enough said.