Ubuntu 12.04 and Unity Desktop

[Alex Beamish]

The problem I had with Unity was on my old workstation - a 1G machine which
was usable before Unity was useless afterwards. It seemed slower than
Windows to present the desktop after a login.

For now, I've abandoned Ubuntu and gone back to stock Debian.

Alex
 On Jul 13, 2013 8:12 AM, "Thomas Milne" <thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> My daughter has an Asus EEE netbook that stopped booting Win 7, so rather
> than try to salvage that nonsense I made a bootable USB from Unetbootin
> with the LTS version of Ubuntu and installed that, and to Ubuntu's credit
> it went off without a hitch.
>
> I was prepared for some brutality after what I had heard on here about
> Unity, but I have to say I don't see what people are so riled about. It's
> different than the usual Gnome2/Win98 kind of configuration and so on, but
> I don't see how it's less intuitive.
>
> Unity actually seems pretty familiar to me now that I've been using the
> iMac for awhile, although I would in no way say that Unity is as good or as
> polished obviously.
>
> Ubuntu definitely did it's job in this case, everything worked as it
> should (except for the volume controls on the keyboard), and Unity
> certainly seems just as intuitive and useable to me as any other desktop. I
> admit I didn't spend any time calculating the number of 'clicks' it took me
> to open an application... ;-)
>
> I would still stick with Debian for my own desktops and so on, but Ubuntu
> did a fantastic job in this case.
>
> --
> Thomas Milne
>
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