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Nice write-up. Bookmarked so I can point people at it :)
My major problem (and the reason I will *NOT* be upgrading to Onanistic Ocelot) is that the nvidia driver and the Xorg setup don’t play nice with my 4-head desktop. This is the machine I do Real Work[tm] on, so it’s non-negotiable.
I can live with everything else…I’m capable of tailoring away all the rest of the issues.
In fairness, the problems with Xorg and the binary-only nvidia driver aren’t Ubuntu’s fault, so I’ll wait for 12.04 and see what happens.
Not sure I’m looking forward to 12.04 though…I have 40+ production servers on 10.04, and the prospect of testing them before upgrading fills me with dread :)
Thanks. That’s all very helpful and thorough.
My desktop computer defaulted to classic gnome when I upgraded to 11.04 because it didn’t have enough graphics horsepower for Unity. I’m thankful for that.
I’d like to upgrade my laptop, but I didn’t like Unity. It’s not a work environment. It’s more an entertainment environment. I’ve been waiting, and dreading an upgrade, because frankly, I don’t have the time to screw around with my computer trying to get it to be ‘just right’ again. Trying to fix a screwed up computer is for Windows users. I got away from that years ago when I upgraded to Ubuntu.
Do you think that Canonical is paying attention to all the negative user experience noise that hangs like a cloud over Unity?
Only time will tell.
I think Ubuntu has just one more chance, in its next iteration of the distro, to show that it has been listening. If it doesn’t at least give people a choice at install time of what kind of desktop experience they’d like ( “Please choose your preferred desktop experience: [ Kill it with fire! ] [ Hurrah! ] ” ), rather than making a horrible choice FOR the user by default, then I’m certain Ubuntu will get consigned to the history books.
I’m still not understanding why Shuttleworth thinks Unity is any way better than even the Gnome Shell. I can understand the thinking behind gnome-shell, and it does grow on you after the initial shock of using it, if you’re used to old-skool desktop experiences.
Unity, on the other hand, does everything gnome-shell does, except far, far worse. It’s the equivalent of reinventing the wheel such that their new wheel is triangular shaped – in other words it’s crap, and it gets in the way of what you want to get done.
Regards.
I fully agree.
I tried Unity, I didn’t give up for 10 days, thinking I could get used, but it was a really awful experience.
Then I found the way to install gnome shell (I was in early 11.04) and I tried it… And I’m liking it as more as I use it. I think it’s one of the best desktops I ever used, and I’m really missing it when doing RDP desktop on my server (not enough graphic power, I guess, and it’s difficult to manage effects over internet).
On the other side, Unity seems to have taken all the worst of each desktop, first of all the global menu bar of Apple (really, ubuntu devel didn’t think that there must be some good reasons if *nobody* has copied that crap up to now ??).
What to say more ? I was thinking to leave ubuntu, then I found gnome shell and I’m happy again with it… just some more work to set it up on my taste.
And thank you for your suggestions on how to setup the RDP + Gnome-fallback, I was really missing it !
Max
"KILL IT. WITH FIRE!" and send the ashes off to the moon! <if I may add>
What a pain in the neck! I was just forced to upgrade because Ubuntu discontinued support for my older version, and now I'm stuck with a horrible bar on the desktop that I can't live with. I haven’t the time to do anything about it right now, but tomorrow I'm going to kill it with fire. Thanks for the article on how to do it.