Re:A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity
by mambodog on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @09:43PM
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UI conventions established by what? Other Linux desktop environments? Established among whom? Old-hat Linux users?
Perhaps that's not who they're targeting.
Re:A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity
by pyre on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @11:48PM
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There is already a contingent of non-power users using Ubuntu. If they alienate those users then who are they really targetting? Shouldn't they worry about user retention in addition to user acquisition?
Re:A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity
by groovy2shoes on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @09:58PM
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The problem is that they're targeting non-users so heavily that they're alienating the users they already have. If they never take user input to heart, they're going to wind up with no users.
Re:A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity
by SkyMarshal on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @11:41PM
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>Unity forced me to start using the keyboard for most things.
That's not a good thing? I haven't used Unity yet, but might try it out just on that comment alone.
Re:A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity
by Jach on Thursday November 03, 2011 @02:11AM
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I presume he means it in a bad way, not in a good way like tiling WMs have.
Re:A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity
by andrewflnr on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @11:20PM
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Linux Mint uses Ubuntu's packages, and is still on Gnome. You might want to give it a shot.
I'll give XFCE a try. I don't want to leave Ubuntu, because I like the packages and I don't have to read a manifesto sized manual to install it or learn another package system.