Jason, Do you have a blog? Have you ever thought of starting one? recently your posts seem more in line with that than with a mailing list. On Nov 11, 2011 1:31 PM, "Jason Hsu" <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> wrote: > I finally got Unity working - I installed Ubuntu 11.10 in VirtualBox. > This must be the 2D mode that people have mentioned, and I guess my > computer doesn't have 3D graphics acceleration. > > When I first looked at Ubuntu 11.10, I wondered what the big deal was. It > looked like there was a menu bar on the left side of the screen instead of > the bottom. Then I tried doing stuff. Of course, the pretty purple/pink > background is about the only thing in common between the new Ubunu UI and > the old one. > > The left menu bar has a now-you-see-it-now-you-don't quality that would > make multitasking tricky. Then there are the applications (like Firefox) > with the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't menu bar at the top of the window. > The icon with the Ubuntu logo leads to the big menu for various functions. > (I guess this is the mobile interface everyone talks about.) > > Gone is the full menu common to the Linux Mint, antiX Linux, Puppy Linux, > Damn Small Linux, Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows 95, and even the old > Ubuntu. You can't even right-click on the desktop to see the full menu > showing most or all of the installed programs. > > To add insult to injury, Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 feel slow with 2 GB of > RAM. This is the Hummer of Linux distros. The old Ubuntu flew with 2 GB > of RAM and was roughly as heavy as Windows XP. In contrast, Linux Mint > Debian Edition flies with only 512 MB of RAM. > > Ubuntu has finally done what would have been inconceivable just a few > years ago - it caught up to Windows in the bloatware department. I don't > have significant experience with Windows Vista or 7, but I'm sure the new > Ubuntu has to be as heavy as Windows 7 and possibly as heavy as Windows > Vista. > > Now that I've tried out Unity, I'm qualified to say that Ubuntu has jumped > the shark. User unfriendly + extremely bloated = EPIC FAIL. While I'm > sure the new Ubuntu can be tweaked, people who have the time and know-how > to do this would be better off tweaking a bare-bones Debian installation or > something like Arch Linux, Gentoo Linux, or Slackware. At least these > alternatives would provide a fast and lightweight setup. > > Canonical needs to be wildly successful in the mobile market to compensate > for the loss of desktop users. I think many more Ubuntu users will defect > to Linux Mint and other distros when support for the current LTS version > ends in 2013. I don't understand why the same OS needs to work for > desktops and mobile devices. Canonical could have continued designing > Ubuntu for the desktop and rolled out a separate mobile OS. It could have > even borrowed elements of the desktop to make the mobile OS to be more > expedient. > > I think the Ubuntu controversy is a sneak preview of what's ahead for > Windows 8. The average Windows user is even more resistant to change than > the average Linux user. I think Windows 8 will be a flop and possibly > damage Microsoft even more than Vista did. > > -- > Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111111/d5ad8d1f/attachment.html>