I just got back from Linuxfest NorthWest and I spoke with quite a few people about this. Almost all of them dislike Unity. It is about the same as when KDE went from 3 to 4... everyone hated it, but now that it has matured a bit, it is an excellent desktop. The little bit of playing I did with Unity, reminded me heavily of OS X. Not very customizable, but easy so long as you want to do basic tasks. I think this will appeal to a lot of people who have no prior experience with Linux, but likely to turn veteran users away. Only time will tell...
Jason On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:01 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:10:28 -0700 > Mike Connors <[email protected]> dijo: > > >> I wonder how much different the reactions would be if you took a > >> similar group and gave them a Gnome desktop, or KDE, or whatever. > >> > >> I suspect the results would be about the same, but it would be > >> interesting to see an experiment. > > > >Probably. We all work differently in a UI that gives us that option. I > >didn't like really like the Linux UI > >on the first few distros I tried as it was Gnome. Then when I started > >running the KDE versions of distros, I stopped using MS Win. > >So a lot of it is just personal preference in how the UI feels to you > >and how you move about and do things in it. > > > >There are people out there who just want a window manager. I tried it > >a few times and it was okay, but after a few days I went back > >to KDE. And I honestly don't do anything to the default KDE. I just > >install the distro and start using it. Maybe that's why I like it so > >much. > > I think Shuttleworth needs to do some primary research. I suspect he > has embraced Unity, partly because it solves some problems with X, but > overwhelmingly because he thinks that it will be more enticing and > easier to use for desktop users, particularly those coming from Windows. > > Is that true? I don't know the answer, but it would be relatively easy > to discover. An in-depth study of the reactions and problems > of new desktop users, comparing Unity, Gnome, KDE, and a few others, > would be very revealing. > > I won't speculate as to the outcome. I only wish to point out that > without some scientific evidence, everything that people say pro and > con Unity is wild ass speculation. Whether you or I personally like it > or not is irrelevant. Ubuntu's goal is to make Linux usable on the > desktop for newcomers to Linux. Those users are the ones whose opinion > matters. > > Maybe the Ubuntu team has already done this research. I doubt it, but > if they have it would be interesting to find a link to it. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
