Ubuntu 12.04 and Unity Desktop

[Mauro Souza]

I installed cinnamon on Ubuntu and liked it. But I am going to unity at
slow paces.
On Jul 13, 2013 10:20 PM, "Alex Beamish" <talexb-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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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