In defense of the devil, beyond the simple fact that unity is controversial and that controversy is interesting, I think there is perhaps some legitimate concern that gnome2 won't be maintained much longer. True, it's linux, you could always just fork it, but that's an awful lot of work as long as other alternatives exist, such as KDE, xfce, ubuntu. Heck, even Xmonad.<br>
<br>Honestly not sure what I think about the whole thing. It is at least, intellectually interesting to me that an intellectual subject could be quite so hotly debated on an aspect of it that is cheaply aesthetic. We've had some discussion of technical merits, is it locked down...etc..., but 80% of all the 11.04 discussion I've heard so far, has come down to, I don't like Unity (usually for aesthetic reasons).<br>
<br>For my own purposes, I'm probably going to end up sticking with "traditional desktops" for as long as I realistically can. I feel like there are PLENTY of things to learn (my cup runneth over) without (to steal something Dennis said), embracing change just for change's sake. (Not better, just different.)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Michael J. Hammel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mjhammel@graphics-muse.org">mjhammel@graphics-muse.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 14:47 -0600, David L. Willson wrote:<br>
> What a let down... I was looking forward to a prison to bust out of.<br>
> I had my inner criminal primed and ready, and now... Pfah.<br>
<br>
</div>It is possible that the view from classic or custom windows is not<br>
sufficient to identify that you're looking into (or out of) a prison.<br>
<br>
Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, SuSE, Gentoo, Slackware. They're all just<br>
personalized peelings wrapped around a beautiful core. Fortunately, we<br>
can all choose our peelings to taste.<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
Michael J. Hammel <<a href="mailto:mjhammel@graphics-muse.org">mjhammel@graphics-muse.org</a>><br>
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