[LUAU] Unity follows the bad idea of one UI for all devices

[Jeff Mings]

Hi Guys!

     Getting back the gnome-2-ish look for Ubuntu 12.04 is really easy:

$ sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

     My laptop and desktop run Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) and Gnome 2 
allows me to be very productive.  However, I wanted to see if another 
box, that will primarily be running Zoneminder, would be tolerable with 
Unity.  With the addition of ClassicMenu Indicator, Unity UI is usable.

     Canonical went to Unity to have a single UI for desktops, tablets 
and phones.  This is a terrible idea, as demonstrated by the horrible 
windows mobile/CE PDAs and phones, and by the manner in which Apple used 
IOS for small devices and Mac OSX for computers.  Even Microsoft 
developed Metro for their new phones (but have foolishly tried to slap 
it onto their Windoze8 desktops). Unity has driven many people to Mint 
Linux or CentOS.  If Ubuntu offered another official derivative ( 
http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/derivatives ) using Gnome 2, 
I would expect it to eclipse all of the other versions.  Gnome 3 is 
absolutely beautiful, but is a regression from a productivity standpoint.

Aloha,
-Jeff

On 03/20/2012 07:47 AM, Peter Besenbruch wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:15:31 -0700 (PDT)
> Julian Yap<julian_yap at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> I've been a long time desktop Linux user but the recent Gnome3 and Unity has
>> soured my hopes of the future.
>>      
> I encountered my Linux desktop crisis with the transition to KDE4. Running
> Debian Lenny helped put it off for a while. With Squeeze the issue was the use
> of the not quite ready for prime time KDE4.4 and the ruination of the KDEPIM
> packages. Thus began a transition to Ubuntu Lucid or Mint Isadora with XFCE.
>
> A similarly equipped Debian runs faster and requires less RAM than either
> Ubuntu or Mint, though.
> <snip>