On 13 January 2011 23:04, Tyler J. Wagner <ty...@tolaris.com> wrote: > I'm running 10.04 now, but will be moving to Mint as of natty. >
You know Natty ships with both Unity _and_ the "classic" GNOME desktop that you are used to in 10.04? > I'm worried that Unity is one case of Ubuntu pushing design in the wrong > direction for the workstation. It's great for netbooks, once they get > the basics like "can add icons to the left menu" sorted. It's certainly a bold step. > But for my > 1680x1050 laptop, where I run multiple terminals side by side and often > run VMs, it's not even an option to use a netbook interface. If I have > to change the UI, I'd much rather have Gnome Shell than Unity. > You say that as if Unity doesn't allow you to have multiple terminals side by side, or run VMs, which it can. > Or, I was just really, really burned by KDE 4, and have become a bit > conservative about major shifts on the desktop. > Yet you're willing to switch the entire distribution based on your assumptions about Unity? :) Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
