Even I'd Ubuntu fails it has made some neat inroads that debian can pick up and the several forks can pick up as well.
I had liked gnome for years Andaman somewhat fond of xfce as a result. But Kadee is appealing to me more lately.
I think my first exposure to *nix at all was in school on Solaris 5 system which prompted me to take a Unix multiuser class at mccauley to gain a real shell acct. About 2 weeks later I had grabbed red hat 6 and installed it to a spare drive.
I loved it but still have this small stack of software that doesn't quite work right in a vm.
So a little over 1/3rd of my life has been technical and I have used and abused computers since before I was about 5.
Right now the virtual display and virtual cry stuff is getting closer to my dream system and I can finally make my full transition.
Now that I have geek babbled to the list o have been here for maybe 5-6 years about the same amount of time I have been married.
Well, Unity really isn't a browser. It's the desktop, which essentially for a "disinterested" user like me, means it IS the OS experience. Yes, I think you can switch to a different desktop than the default. But the average user isn't likely to do that. I'm not.
Tom
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:Can't you just install another browser?
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On 11/14/11, Thomas Gail Haws <tom.haws@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm still on the fence as to which distro will take
>>
> the lead when Ubuntu fails, unless they wise up and default to something
>> other
>> than unity. I'm not trying to start a flame war, but I really think Unity
>> is a
>> mistake.
>>
>
> No argument there, Nathan. I've been on PLUG one year now since I decided
> to augment my business doing LAMP programming. So I'm rather green.
>
> I always wanted to run Linux, but I took the "role" of disinterested user.
> I decided I would run Linux when it was ready to run for me. I
> occasionally tried this or that distro. I remember Knoppix. When Ubuntu
> appeared, I started trying it. Eventually a version appeared that
> installed effortlessly on my PC. Since then I have more or less had at
> least one box that will run Linux.
>
> Part of my Linux desire was to give my three kids exposure to something
> different. And my middle child, my 14-year-old Michael, has been the
> Ubuntu user for about a year now.
>
> I'm far from a power user. But I sort of know enough to do my LAMP
> development as a junior programmer at age 45.
>
> I wish Ubuntu wouldn't fail. It's really sad. But they don't seem ready
> to acknowledge that Unity is plain hard to use.
>
> Tom
>
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