[Nottingham] Desktop Upgrade

[Barry Drake]

On 10/05/12 23:13, Jason Irwin wrote:
> I've been trying Unity on-and-off in a VM and am very leery of switching
> to it as it just seems to want to make life difficult.

I started testing Ubuntu 12.04 at Alpha 1 and only twice went back to an 
earlier install when there was a problem bug and Libreoffice wouldn't 
work.  I forced myself to use Unity during the 11.10 cycle, but after a 
couple of weeks or so actually began seeing the nice features and began 
to like it.  12.04 in my view is just great.  Now the Unity Lens system 
is working in a friendly way it's really easy to use.  Spending a bit of 
time on the Ubuntu Help sites has shown me just how many folk are moving 
from Windows to try gnu/linux for the first time.  Questions like 'Yes, 
but where do I do sudo apt-get install -f' are really common.

It would be nice to have a far more configurable Unity without getting 
messy and writing lenses, but that will come.

Of course we all liked the gnome desktop.  When I go back to it now, I 
find it just a little frustrating!

Regards,        Barry

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