Please do not use Unity...

May 7, 2012

Posted By:  stephenmm

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I used to love Ubuntu and had all kinds of scripts that would setup the box just the way I wanted it and then came Unity... Wow, did they completely hose this wonderfull OS or what. Completely unusable for a developer (IMHO). So if I would have one suggestion it would be to use Xubuntu instead. I think if you wanted to do Ubuntu/Unity for non-techies that might be alright. Unity has eliminated my ability to customize the OS the way that I  want and I would not buy such a machine. Put Xubuntu (or Mint or anything other than Unity, really) on an XPS 13 and I will be the first one at your door with credit card in hand! 

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  • May 9, 2012     Comment Link

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    Posted By: asterix7

    I think the important thing here is choice. Some people like unity as an interface, some like me don't. However, if you make the effort of integrating Ubuntu and the Ultrabook and the idea of a developers laptop you may as well have multiple graphical user interfaces for the user to chose from (Many linux distro's such as mint come with several that you can change each time you log on). So why not just make it easy for whoever has bought it to use a pre-built in KDE or cinnamon (the latest linux mint GUI) or any other GUI. The other possibility would to have that choice for whoever buys it - Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, linux mint or any of the common ubuntu variants. I know that personally I would be a lot more likely to fork out the money for this idea if I could have cinnamon as the GUI, or linux mint as the distribution.
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  • May 8, 2012     Comment Link

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    Posted By: conner_bw

    I disagree.

    I've been an OS X user since 2003. A Ubuntu 10.04 LTS for a few months, and a 12.04 LTS user since April 27th. Mostly I'm a web developer, like many, who buys Mac computers to make a living from them.

    For the last 6 minths I was forced to use Ubuntu 10.04 on a desktop workstation. I decided to upgrade to 12.04. I like it. 10.04 is terrible in retrospect.

    Seriously, in 12.04 you put your left hand on the super key and wait, read the pop up, force yourself to learn a few shortcuts and in a couple of hours it feels like OSX but slightly less idiotic.

    Sure, there are glitches and annoyances, but my next computer after ~10 of Mac is a Linux box.

    Someone is doing something right.