Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users

Re:Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and P... by squidsoup on Sunday November 18, 2012 @08:43PM (#4802464)

Sadly none of the linux desktop environments are particularly great either - unity, gnomeshell, and kde all have different problems and none of them are nearly as refined as the OS X UI. That being said, if you are comfortable with a minimal tiling wm like awesome or xmonad, you can have a very productive environment.

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Re:Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and P... by actsasbuffoon on Sunday November 18, 2012 @10:17PM (#4802723)

I second the suggestion of Awesome. It's really easy to set up your own highly customized window manager. The tagging concept is also really interesting, and I haven't seen anything quite like it in any other WM.

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Re:Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and P... by novamantis on Sunday November 18, 2012 @11:49PM (#4802952)

Well, guh. The point of those DEs is too be highly customisable. Although, I agree that they should be more appealing out of the box.

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Re:Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and P... by rplnt on Monday November 19, 2012 @04:35AM (#4803640)

Gnome-anything is far from customizable. If you don't count hacking it by editing XMLs and javascripts (for gnome-shell).

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Re:Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and P... by novamantis on Monday November 19, 2012 @07:16PM (#4807085)

Did I say Gnome? Most Linux users know this. KDE, XFCE, LXCE are what you want if you need customisable UI.

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Re:Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and P... by pteredactyl on Monday November 19, 2012 @12:21PM (#4805310)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesignTeam

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