2011/4/8 Timo Jyrinki <timo.jyri...@gmail.com>: > There are a lot of bugs and lack of features (and many have been fixed > already as well) and the performance is quite bad in parts, but those > are not as serious as a) crashers and potentially b) accessibility and > lack of any help.
Just reflecting on the more recent posts, I'm using Unity on my work machine, but I do have only 1280x1024 (or 1400x900, depending on if I use internal or external display) resolution. I mostly run everything full screen, and most of the time I don't use Unity to switch between windows at least yet - I use either alt-tab (somewhat annoyingly slow) or compiz's scale plugin which I have bound to lower right corner of the screen (works pretty nicely for me). As for "what I say to others" factor, I (and Ubuntu Finland website as decided by us already around 10.10 time) continue recommending Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS for everyone. I don't believe users should generally install a non-LTS Ubuntu, even with the caveat of not the newest hardware support. 18 months of security support and therefore need to upgrade N number of times to get to the next LTS is too much for many, since the upgrade is still something of a hassle at times, regressions appear et cetera. Unity being still maturing is just one factor that contributes to this, but I wouldn't have any problem recommending 12.04 LTS with Unity to everyone, since it's going to be "ok" already in 11.04 (and fabulous effort / re-write since 10.10) it's a piece of cake to believe it keeps improving. Not that I would have any problem with gnome-shell either, it's becoming great nowadays as well. I know that as a power user I'm from the more "adjusts to the environment" part of scale. I don't need to keep doing the way I've been doing before, and I usually stick to quite near the shipping defaults. I did have focus follows mouse though, which I disabled since it worked so poorly with Unity :P Of course I wouldn't keep using Unity if it hadn't improved in the last month like it has, but the application launching via Super key or Alt-F2 really starts to work now, better than ever in GNOME 2. Still too laggy and does not always "just work", but most of the time it's neat. -Timo -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
