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Re:A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity by mambodog on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @09:43PM (#3189811)
UI conventions established by what? Other Linux desktop environments? Established among whom? Old-hat Linux users?

Perhaps that's not who they're targeting.

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Re:A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity by pyre on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @11:48PM (#3190149)
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?
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Re:A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity by groovy2shoes on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @09:58PM (#3189843)
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.
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