On 01/07/12 09:56, Chris Liddell wrote:
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, everof other
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
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If you'd been at Popey's demo of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS at the Surrey meet in
Addlestone, Chris, you might have been converted to Unity - as were a
lot us.
E.g. I get an instant Terminal window on this PC by pressing < win + 6 >
- that's just two keys, together.
Using the search key (top of the icons), three letters finds a program
thanks to predictive text.
I'm no 'power user' but it all seems pretty good to me.
And compared to my previous MS experience of about 17 frustrating years,
this is computer heaven.
(Thank you Desmond.)
Tony Wood
(from PC)
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