{"id":25036,"date":"2011-04-17T09:42:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T09:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/04\/17\/beware-of-unity\/"},"modified":"2011-04-17T09:42:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T09:42:50","slug":"beware-of-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/17\/beware-of-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Unity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/11\/is_ubuntu_running_off_a_cliff.php\">A lot of people got mad at me<\/a> when I complained about the upcoming switch from Gnome to Unity.  (And yes, I know Unity is based on Gnome but it is not Gnome. It is Unity).  And yeah, I had some things wrong and some of the comments contraindicating my concern were valid, but many were more like &#8220;They know what they are doing, so just accept it&#8221; which is a little to Microsofty for me.  And, for that matter, for the Linux Community in general, I would have thought.  And now we have disconcerting reports that the new desktop which is coming out in a couple of weeks, in a late (but not final) Beta stage, <a href=\"http:\/\/digitizor.com\/2011\/04\/15\/crashed-unity-canonical-study\/\">crashes during roughly half the user tests it was subjected to, all on a single install.  <\/a>  Now, I admit, failing just under half the time on some randomly chosen hardware is a lot better than Windows, but we&#8217;re not really comparing Unity on Ubuntu to Windows.  We are comparing it to Lucid Lynx, which has already become a bit too Windows Like in its performance and deployment.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people got mad at me when I complained about the upcoming switch from Gnome to Unity. (And yes, I know Unity is based on Gnome but it is not Gnome. It is Unity). And yeah, I had some things wrong and some of the comments contraindicating my concern were valid, but many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/17\/beware-of-unity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beware of Unity?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6vO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}