Comments on: Beware of Unity? https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/04/17/beware-of-unity/ Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:04:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Alan https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/04/17/beware-of-unity/#comment-502057 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:04:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/04/17/beware-of-unity/#comment-502057 “Now, I admit, failing just under half the time on some randomly chosen hardware is a lot better than Windows”

Please stop with the O/S fanboy-isim, if I wanted that level of immature hyperbole I would go to a script-kiddie forum.

OTOH, if you really do have that much trouble installing windows then why would anyone take your opinions about any other O/S seriously?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/04/17/beware-of-unity/#comment-502056 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:42:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/04/17/beware-of-unity/#comment-502056 Just out of curiosity, can you give us a couple of examples of things you could not configure (or not configure easily, or whatever) in Gnome that KDE or XFCE let you configure?

For myself, I don’t even use the desktop much. I should probably just use an x-server so I have gui-ness and call stuff up off the command line, which is what I do much of the time anyway. Except when I’m teaching I use two apps most of the time plus file management, etc.

]]> By: Rolandl https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/04/17/beware-of-unity/#comment-502055 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:38:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/04/17/beware-of-unity/#comment-502055 Getting the X server out of the way is the idea behind Unity. It’s a good idea, poorly implemented. Rule of thumb: avoid version 1.0 of anything. As for the look-and-feel of the thing, the market will decide. I gave up on Gnome long ago-not configurable enough. I was a fan of KDE3.5, but I’ve dropped KDE4 for similar reasons. Others feel the same way. KDE3.5 is still around, it’s been forked. See http://www.trinitydesktop.org/

Bottom line: I expect 2 years of chaos in the linux application arena, before it all gets straightened out. It’s too bad, it will discourage lots of new users. For now, I’ve switched to XFCE, and like it.

]]> By: ralph https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/04/17/beware-of-unity/#comment-502054 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:31:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/04/17/beware-of-unity/#comment-502054 Exactly, my disagreement was with the word “installation”. Sorry if I wasn’t clear on that, English is not my native language.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/04/17/beware-of-unity/#comment-502053 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:56:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/04/17/beware-of-unity/#comment-502053 Ralph, I’m referring to the information in this source: “5 Out Of 11 Participants Crashed Unity In Canonicalâ??s Study” in which it is said:

“The most startling revelation from the study was that five out of the eleven participants had Unity crashing on them during their test.”

In the source you give, which is very interesting (and thanks for that) it says:

“5/11 participants (P2, P3, P5, P9, P10, P11) crashed Unity during their hour of testing. And towards the end of her test, P11 opened a zombie quicklist that stayed on top of everything and didn’t respond to clicks.”

I think you and I may be disagreeing with the word “Installation” and that’s my fault. I’ve adjusted the post.

]]> By: Ralph https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/04/17/beware-of-unity/#comment-502052 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:36:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/04/17/beware-of-unity/#comment-502052 First off, I’m a frequent reader and as this is my first comment here, I just wanted to say how much I like your blog.

However, I don’t think this post is correct. Especially, the claim that unity “crashes on roughly half the installations it is tested on” is simply false as I think only one installation was used. You can see the test results and the set up they used here:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-April/032988.html

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