Dear All, I am going to take the risk of evangelising to the wrong people(yourselves). Please excuse me for doing this but I feel that I must point out a glaring fact which everyone seems to be missing. I must ask all of you to put yourselves into a normal everyday user's shoes, for example a Windows user, before simply shooting Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal down.
Do not forget that Canonical(Mark Shuttleworth) is striving to produce a world class desktop Operating System designed to compete with the likes of Mac OS and Windows 7. The intention of Ubuntu is to provide an easy to use desktop environment, for everyday users(not the likes of us!!), conducive to a comfortable working environment. Note also that Canonical's strategy was to remove the notebook(NBR) version of Ubuntu. This happened because the desktop version actually provides the functionality of the notebook version. My opinion on this is that Canonical is trying to produce an interface which will work anywhere, be it a Desktop, Laptop, Notebook, Netbook, Notepad(ipad type) or Mobile phone. This ability should make the interface very attractive as the same user interface paradigm will be used throughout the whole spectrum of hardware platforms, making it less confusing for the everyday user. The Unity interface is also designed with multi-touch in mind and it must be experienced in this format and not just with the mouse point and click interaction. My opinion on 11.04 Natty Narwhal, is to give it a chance. It is as yet in it's infancy and only time will tell how it will mature. It is up to us to try and give feedback and help it grow into a world class OS. As for myself. I have installed Natty Narwhal on my notebook, I will not be installing on my desktop as yet. Initially via an upgrade which went very well until I decided to try and get my desktop cube back(I will not be trying that again any time soon!!) and lost the whole interface in the process. I have finally, after an interim full install on just my root partition which also left me without an interface, performed a full clean install. By the way I opted to use btrfs instead of ext4 and will let you know how that goes in the future. I must admit that my first impression of Unity is that I do not like it at all, keeping in mind that I am using mouse point and click interaction with Unity. I really hate the side bar however I believe the idea here is to make it easily adaptable to a mobile phone screen. Otherwise my first good impression is that the graphics seem to be smoother then before(It could be just me trying to justify my using Unity). Anyway I have ranted and raved enough, .... please go easy on me. Alan. PS: I think we may see the rise of another Ubuntu flavour after this move to Unity. In the vain of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu ... etc. Something like Oubuntu(Original Ubuntu)? Maybe? On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 20:07 +0200, Anton Xuereb wrote: > that's exactly what i was afraid of and why I haven't upgraded yet..I > might just move to arch for my work laptop aswell > > > On 1 May 2011 18:07, Ramon Casha <ramon.ca...@linux.org.mt> wrote: > > I upgraded but I'm totally underwhelmed by Natty's Unity AND > the Gnome3 shell. It seems that these interfaces both try to > aim for the lowest common denominator. I don't consider this > to be a step forward at all. I like a system that provides me > with the ability to tweak it exactly as I want, not a system > that is fixed in what someone considered the best option for > everyone. > > > Ramon Casha > > > > > > > On 1 May 2011 12:20, Keith Vassallo <kei...@me.com> wrote: > > Watch out upgrading if you have an ATI graphics card. > Major problems on some models. > > > > Wouldn't boot on my sister's laptop > > > K > > > On 01 May 2011, at 11:01, Andrew Cilia wrote: > > > > > The sane,sober,sensible aviators have spoken. If it > > works, don't fix it. > > > > > > On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 09:10 +0200, Paul Morley > > wrote: > > > > > Yes I totally agree Daniel, the big thing about > > > Linux is choice and the ability to tweak. > > > I am still using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS but tweaked > > > with: > > > > > > The Kernel is 2.6.38-8 patched for lucid > > > Nividia graphic kernel is 260.19.44 > > > LibreOffice 3.3.2 > > > Thunderbird 3.1.10 with Charemel 1.4.1 theme. > > > Rhythmbox and Evolution removed, and lots more > > > minor changes. > > > > > > So will be staying away from Unity 11.04 as I'm > > > happy with my current setup. > > > > > > Paul > > > > > > > > > > > > On 05/01/2011 08:31 AM, Daniel wrote: > > > > > > > In my opinion in 11.04 its not the googling and > > > > tweaking which is a problem (although when > > > > googling I don't find all the answers !!!) but > > > > it is going to limit our freedom in tweaking the > > > > system. If it becomes like windows where we can > > > > just change a few flashy things but not more, > > > > then the community will look for > > > > alternatives....... > > > > > > > > Daniel > > > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > > > Anyone installed 11.04? I'm kind of apprehensive > about the new interface > > > > > breaking my carefully assembled linux box.... last > upgrade, my scanner > > > > > didn't work and it needed a day of googling and > tweaking to get it > > > > > moving again... > > > > > > > > > > Joseph > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > MLUG-list mailing list > > > > > MLUG-list@linux.org.mt > > > > > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > <Mail Attachment.jpeg> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > MLUG-list mailing list > > > > MLUG-list@linux.org.mt > > > > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > MLUG-list mailing list > > > MLUG-list@linux.org.mt > > > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MLUG-list mailing list > > MLUG-list@linux.org.mt > > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > MLUG-list@linux.org.mt > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > MLUG-list@linux.org.mt > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > MLUG-list@linux.org.mt > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
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