On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 13:48 -0600, Mark Katerberg wrote: > 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. > While a blog might be very appropriate, I fail to see how his thoughts on Unity is out of place on a LUG list. The future of Ubuntu (one the most prolific distros as a desktop today) is hinged on the acceptance of the desktop experience. While a lot of Jason's conjecture on comparing Windows bloat to Ubuntu bloat I disagree with I feel this is indeed an appropriate forum to discuss such matters. I think the new Gnome 3 sounds worse than Gnome 2. I run with a lot of KDE apps from their desktop set but I don't prefer KDE as my desktop / WM. I also tried Unity a while back on 11.04 and I did not like it. I like Gnome 2 and will miss it when eventually every distro I am likely to use will drop it. Not sure what I will do exactly yet for a desktop environment as I also don't like the idea of running on an unsupported OS indefinitely either. Maybe move to one of the lighter weight desktops but I enjoy a lot of the features and bells/whistles that Jason likes to call "bloat" especially on 8 gigs of RAM. As much as I dislike Apple as a business I may re-consider getting a Mac as I wont go back to Windows for the foreseeable future. I bet something tolerable will crop up for me in the future.