Introductions and Current Status

[Thomas Gail Haws]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can't you just install another browser?
>
> On 11/14/11, Thomas Gail Haws <tom.haws at 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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