Now that the Unity hate has cooled down, how do you feel about the WM?

[speedwell68]

I was never a Unity hater, I decided to leave it be when it was in it's infancy as I never found it to be particularly complete. I went over to Lubuntu on my Laptop and Netbook and Mint with Gnome 3 on my desktop. The desktop is due an upgrade so I think I'll give it a whirl then.

[Gremlinzzz]

I agree with most of this video
Ubuntu vs Xubuntu and More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T972LxCS1h0

[Jakin]

I agree with most of this video
Ubuntu vs Xubuntu and More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T972LxCS1h0

X-ubuntu? All this time i've been calling it "zoo-buntu"..

[sffvba[e0rt]

X-ubuntu? All this time i've been calling it "zoo-buntu"..

I am pretty sure there will be many people calling it one or the other... neither being right wrong.


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[Antoon Stessels]

The most annoying feature concerning Unity (and one that could be easily remedied) is choosing apps in the lens. Why oh, why oh, why (when I type in Terminal for example) do I then have to navigate to the Terminal Icon!?! This feature is so obtuse and annoyingly easy to remedy that it alone turns me off Unity. Gnome Shell's Activities overview is far superior in this respect. Like Synapse, I can type Terminal and hit return. Done. Unity should anticipate the software that I want, like Synapse or Gnome Shell, and hightlight it. C'mon boys.

It may not look like it, but Unity does exactly that. Try it: hit dash, type in terminal and hit return... It WILL open your program (although in many cases it will also give you more options and - true - will not highlight your probable first choice.

[Antoon Stessels]

I'm the kind of person that cannot settle on one choice, so I tested Unity, Gnome 3, Xubuntu, KDE, ... and what have you, not once, but many times over and again.

In fact, this thread makes me want to test Xubuntu again right this very moment, but I'm going to try to fight the urge for now.

The thing is: I always come back to Unity. For the simple reason that it has features that I've grown used to (dash, HUD, the notification bubbles, ...) and immediately miss when launching e.g. into Gnome 3.

I do agree what someone told earlier, that Unity has to cut loose from Compiz and evolve into sth more standalone. Then Canonical should try to make it more stable and quick.

This is a huge priority to me. Apart from that, I am a Unity fanboy.

[leclerc65]

I can never live with Unity. My main desktop is now running Maya Mate, all other are running Maya XFCE (I also hate AWN , so no Xubuntu for me), Lubuntu or Puppy depending on their hardware power.
Yes, you can tailor the desktop to your liking with Ubuntu, but
it's never stable. I tried Ubuntu 12.04 with LXDE for 5 months, but my main desktop keeps crashing (with Thunderbird and Nautilus) so I gave up and defected.
Habit dies hard, I still prefer this Forums to Mint's.

[Ashtonford]

That one feature alone, Unity, nearly pushed me back to using *******; heresy I know, but that's how much of a retrograde step I feel Unity is.

99.99999% of my computer activity is either mouse based or it's entering text like I'm doing right now. Unity helps none of those activities and compels me to use the keyboard more than I previously did. That is not a productivity gain in my books. I also have some specific issues with Unity (although I will be the first to admit I'm not a Unity genius) viz:

• I'm not sure which flavour of Unity I was running, but there were times I could not get rid of, or hide, the unity launcher... thus cluttering the desktop,
• my bottom panel would disappear and I thus lost access to my desktop cube listing. This becomes a real problem when an application on another face of the cube is screeming for attention and I can't get to it. Sure, I know I can go to the 'switcher' on the Unity launcher but that triples the number of mouse actions to get to the appropriate cube face.

Today was the 4th time this year I have tried to come to grips with Unity and the 4th time my computer (and me) has been screwed. If Shuttleworth thinks this is the future of Ubuntu then I am super glad that today I downloaded Mint.

/psychotic rant

Mint is the best choice at the moment for a normal easy to use desk top.

[Ashtonford]

Its slow.. I prefer Cinnamon

Iam currently using cinnamon also ike it very much. I have tweaked 12.10 ubuntu unity and its usable but still not the best at the moment.

[Eggnog]

I alternate between Unity and Cinnamon depending on my mood, relying mostly on Cinnamon lately. I am so conflicted.