On 06/04/13 21:11, Gareth France wrote:
I just thought I'd write a little something about my experience today for the unity nay sayers. I'm running Raring at the moment and it's been going pretty well so far, but today I had my first breakage. Compiz is crashing so unity as a whole is not loading and I simply get the desktop and nothing more. So, not to be beaten I installed gnome shell and the fallback mode is working. However it's not usable, having used unity since it became the default interface I now find the gnome 2 style interface agonisingly clunky. So I wonder how many of those who slate unity simply haven't given it a chance?
I'm sure when Unity first came out, I had a completely failing shell at one point. Can't remember now whether I made a fix from the commandline using something like: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop^ (don't forget the 'caret' at the end of the command - this is the magic bit!) Maybe I did a complete re-install - often the easiest fix.
A few weeks ago, I tried Mint just to see what it felt like these days. I found the Gnome desktop annoyingly clunky. I find Windows 7 really annoying these days. Unity seems to user friendly and intuitive there's no way I'd want to downgrade to anything less capable. I think the Unity knockers are just unwilling to give innovation a chance. There are always Luddites around.
Regards, Barry. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
