HawkFest
April 19th, 2013, 09:08 PM
I'm not separated anymore (which was the case since those versions imposing Unity out-of-the-box), I'm on the divorce mode for good, and I keep all!
Sad. I was hoping to see a version for desktops, after seeing ver. 11.xx + Ubuntu engaging themselves into tablet paradigms taking the whole place... But it didn't happen. I have a couple of desktops at home, as well as a laptop, and they are NOT tablets nor "smartphones", they are computer desktops and laptops, period, and I don't &?%!@ need that tablet/phone touch-zilch oriented interface! Unfortunately Canonical has chosen the path of mini-guizmos with its OS interface design, more over it does it badly! IMHO, trying to unify the interface between tablets and desktops is a very bad move : it's not unifying anything since these are pertaining to distinct contexts and paradigms anyways : for tablets, I find that Android or Windows 8 are much more appropriate and usable than Unity's "halfway interface design", while on the other hand it's the worst interface one can get for a desktop PC. If unifying means "leveraging for the least common denominator" for both (cause you cant leverage with the best of both since they are both different in size, usage and context)... Bad move.
Who really thought at Canonical that there exist some Universal unifying stuff, like a dogmatic magic wand from some God Unifying everything into one single entity (while on the opposite, the Universe, Nature and Evolution in itself, are expanding in complexity)? The path that Canonical has taken is a philosophical error from the start. At least provide two versions, one for "out-of-the-box desktop" and the other for "out-of-the-box tablet finger-pointing guyzmo"...
Hence, my question : does anyone has a recommendation for another Linux distribution which is desktop-oriented out-of-the-box, and which is compatible with Steam/Valve system for games I'm playing on my 46 inches LCD HD screen via my custom and powerful Multimedia-PC (of course my Samsung HDTV is not touchscreen, I don't have Bill Gate's wallet for this kind of futile and useless functionality in regards to bigger screens than tablets ; thus, any distro interface designed with some "touching tsoin-tsoin" in mind is out of the question)?
Sad. I was hoping to see a version for desktops, after seeing ver. 11.xx + Ubuntu engaging themselves into tablet paradigms taking the whole place... But it didn't happen. I have a couple of desktops at home, as well as a laptop, and they are NOT tablets nor "smartphones", they are computer desktops and laptops, period, and I don't &?%!@ need that tablet/phone touch-zilch oriented interface! Unfortunately Canonical has chosen the path of mini-guizmos with its OS interface design, more over it does it badly! IMHO, trying to unify the interface between tablets and desktops is a very bad move : it's not unifying anything since these are pertaining to distinct contexts and paradigms anyways : for tablets, I find that Android or Windows 8 are much more appropriate and usable than Unity's "halfway interface design", while on the other hand it's the worst interface one can get for a desktop PC. If unifying means "leveraging for the least common denominator" for both (cause you cant leverage with the best of both since they are both different in size, usage and context)... Bad move.
Who really thought at Canonical that there exist some Universal unifying stuff, like a dogmatic magic wand from some God Unifying everything into one single entity (while on the opposite, the Universe, Nature and Evolution in itself, are expanding in complexity)? The path that Canonical has taken is a philosophical error from the start. At least provide two versions, one for "out-of-the-box desktop" and the other for "out-of-the-box tablet finger-pointing guyzmo"...
Hence, my question : does anyone has a recommendation for another Linux distribution which is desktop-oriented out-of-the-box, and which is compatible with Steam/Valve system for games I'm playing on my 46 inches LCD HD screen via my custom and powerful Multimedia-PC (of course my Samsung HDTV is not touchscreen, I don't have Bill Gate's wallet for this kind of futile and useless functionality in regards to bigger screens than tablets ; thus, any distro interface designed with some "touching tsoin-tsoin" in mind is out of the question)?