A bit late to this discussion, but never mind.....
I gave up on Unity *very* quickly..... it took me a good (bad!) fifteen
minutes to find how to get a terminal window up, and I concluded it was
not for me, at all - I switched to Xfce for now. I may go back to Debian
next time I have to setup a machine.
This is Unix, for heaven's sake, how can a terminal window *not* be
available right there, "front and centre"?
I very much feel there is a trend in interface design to favour the
new/occasional user, even when it will inconvenience the experienced
"power user". In truth I have no problem with interfaces being made
easier to drive for the less experienced user, but why does it have to
get in the way of me (as an experienced user) going about things they
way I want to?
Unity and Gnome3 (I haven't tried KDE in years) both seem to want to
impose a way of working on me, and that's a big reason I wanted to get
away from Windows - I want to tell the computer how to work, not have
the computer tell me how to work!
I wonder if we'll see an upsurge in "power users" using plain old window
managers, instead of the full "desktop experience" GUIs....
Chris
On 30/06/12 11:09, Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've been struggling with Unity/Ubuntu 12.04 on a Mac
>
> Desktop seems a good deal less usable than in the pre-Unity days
>
> On 10.04.x, you can access every single app cumulatively installed, ever
> so easily
>
> Is there a SysAdmin's walkthrough, of how to return a Unity desktop to
> full administator's ready functionality ?
>
> Please advize, if you can. ( If not, I'll downgrade, & keep on updating
> that .. )
>
> When you install KDE, LXDE, XFCE desktops, they take on a kind of Unity
> cut-down format ..
>
> Instead of giving you a bootup choice of desktop, the system
> auto-defaults to the latest installed desktop
>
> All this is a backwards step - offering less user-friendliness & more
> system-initiated control ( Ubuntu for dummies ? )
>
> thanx,
>
> Lesz
>
--
Please post to: Hampshire@???
Web Interface:
https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire
LUG URL:
http://www.hantslug.org.uk
--------------------------------------------------------------
