some users have commented on another blog i have, that the newer Ubuntu 12 is better … that the problems with the unity desktop have been resolved, etc. but it is not anything that can get ‘better’ because the construct of Unity is just all wrong.
unity is a HUGE time hog. i can’t imagine what brainiac would sit there and say “let’s make people hover, then click, then wait for a slow launcher interface to process the command” and think that’s better than a click and immediate response.
unity infuriates me to no end. it is the perfect example of construct that favors design over function. even if you use compiz and disable the hover-BS, it’s better where you can scroll the buttons then instead of hovering and waiting for them to open, and THEN being able to scroll. it is stupid beyond stupid. buggy — top heavy.
how much collective time have they wasted, do you think? if it takes a user 10 seconds EXTRA on average to launch an app (often more) and 6 apps a day that’s 1 minute per user which 6000 users a day would be 100 hours a day of time wasted/stolen by the makers of unity. at $10 an hour, they have then cost $1000 for every 6000 users PER DAY.
and patting themselves on the back while they do it …..
“new” is supposed to SAVE you time, not waste time.
most indexes are faster to use when the user can become familiar with elements, not constantly search for specific designations. it is acutally faster to use the HUMAN index, and find what is needed according to placement in a filesystem, than constantly wait for a computer to find it.
because a HUMAN index has a steady response time, where a computer is not consistent and will always vary response according to load.
WHEN you have a consistent usage element, performance of hardware and software then have a metered range by which to calibrate evaluation.
take that away, with having to hover (wait dependent on system load) and with search (find dependent on system load) … and you have a system that will waste a persons day without them even knowing it.
sort of like the evil, that people who don’t know computers think is “cool” — but really represents all that SHOULDN’T be done with computing. unity desktop is a very bad idea and a very bad thing.
ubuntu attempting to force users into unity, by not including a “classic” choice in the sign-in screen, is further proof of its inadequacy. if it was a better option, there would be no need to force users into it. to get the correct Gnome desktop you have to waste more time, looking online and installing the selection. calculate how much time unity is costing you, and decide if will do better to take the time to remove it.
it’s like bad chess ……. really bad chess. like some other-world plot to determine how many hoops a human being will jump to get a better working operating system. it’s like the makers of Ubuntu have gone mad. or were mad all along.
I just made the mistake of updating to 12.04 without researching first.
This eats huge heaps of shit. I would have expected a change in the look, but not so much a complete excision of usability.
If I only had an external HD large enough to accommodate all my music and movies and stuff, I’d wipe and start from scratch, with slack or something.
Alas.
there’s supposed to be a way to install the classic desktop …. if you google it, uses a terminal command to find and install. i just went back to 10.10 ….. again. sticking w/ubuntu because can’t figure out with Fedora how to make the grub install on a usb stick.
apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
yes because it was too hard for the OS writers to include that package in the build? and are looking at how much TIME it takes an average user to google and find those terminal commands. is xubuntu Gnome? is xubuntu-desktop package even onboard for the OS to just install it?
guess i should have made clear …. i know how to circumvent anything. if you can google and read, you can manage. my concern is for the user who does not have the ability to understand written directions — heck, any directions.
that aside ………..let’s go BIG – BIG picture on this: how many hoops do you let them make you jump?
how many? before you say “OK, you’re just changing things now because you CAN.” how many? the human being is a creature of habit. and while it is a GOOD thing to keep some change and keep on the toes, is not a good thing when that is for entertainment purposes of those designing the dance.
and as i pointed out, to slow the user in the Unity build. SO are looking at the designers who INTENTIONALLY wish to slow the work of those who are farther down the ladder in learning Linux. plus there are measurable glitches in Gnome once Unity has been deployed. so everybody pays for it even with an install of the right desktop. everybody pays for dumb and his brother stupid being in command.
entire thing is blown, because in computing cannot build on crap. got a case of bad programming and bad programmers. as in evil and you want somebody evil working on your patches and updates w/access to your hardware?
it doesn’t matter that you can ‘fix’ it to make it back to a normal desktop environment. only thing the OS writers have to do …………. and i’ve said this before ………….. is on the install programming, design one more intro-screen that asks the user if they would like Unity mobile desktop or Gnome home desktop. it’s not hard.
IF they want to employ a cross-platform environment, then need an efficiency expert on hand to fix Unity. get rid of the hover BS and shorten the loop on the launcher. have drag-n-drop links back on the desktop.
not that hard, and they don’t do it — which means again, that the fracking of users is intentional. the elimination of desktop links is a tactic to force the user onto the slower(and inconsistent) Unity-launcher links. the elimination of the sign-in option for a Gnome desktop is to force users to use Unity.
the only upside is a mobile platform which might be marketable in the future. because are getting more users to use the platform so that more data can be collected. SO …. we are looking at the fracking of ubuntu users for the purpose of eventual payoff for the makers. which i really don’t have a problem-with, if it weren’t for the FACT that they are PAYING for that then with EVERYBODY else’s time, and what THAT means is that we are actually experiencing a net-loss because they are stupid.
$1000 in time, for every 6000 users per day for 3 years of development research totals ……….. $36,000 per 6000 users. at $20 per unit for the OS, are looking at the need to contract 1800 units per 6000 users just to break even. which if it doesn’t take off (which it won’t, since Windows 8 is in full steam) …..there is no way they are going to make up for the loss created by stealing everyone else’s time.
so it’s a fracking without even any payoff. and that’s why i bother to take some of my time to fight against what stupid has done with this. the fact that our big boys haven’t nipped it in the bud, means we have problems that go farther up the chain.
oh …. and the REAL payoff, training users to type everything they are “searching” for — is a way to log data on user selective-processes. which that data again is not worth the dollar hours, unless you are selling that data to an enemy of those who are making it.
i can see all kinds of bad spins on what Ubuntu has done with Unity starting with their Natty build.
and the only “upside” is Ubuntu programmers might be impressing a few lower-IQ 14 year olds. which everybody and their mother’s uncle already has all the data they need on that.
oh, and the reason they ‘need’ a typed entry of every search is a failure in the programming to log and compile clicks. so are looking at a design to frack users for the sake of gathering data that they could have gathered without fracking users if they built the system right to begin-with.
which if the system DOES already contain measures to log and compile clicks, then the forced-to-search tactic is a deliberate hole in the programming, for malicious software to gain access to user movements and gather data. so it is a feeding of the lower fish. and again, with no way to make up in money for what are costing everyone.
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“The Ubuntu team is very pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) for Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products.”
They should be embarrased, especially Unity. Gnome is better, with better workspace switching, better application switching, and better customization. I regret moving to 12.04. Maybe it’s time to get an alternative to Ubuntu.
They added a couple of minor improvements, and lost having an effective OS.
They totally lost it.
yep. i just use the older 10.10 version. keep a firewall up.
Yep! and never, ever update! (of course now there are no updates)
sorry if i sabotaged a potential open-source champion. saw some probs with later marketing to cause nationwide blankage of cellphones useing Linux-based OS’s. E.
Preach it!!
I just installed 12.10 64-bit on my new super-fast machine and it ran like it was covered in molasses. I thought perhaps the bleeding edge was at fault, so I wiped it and installed 12.04. No, it apparently just blows goats. The Unity interface made me want to strangle my cats. Trying to FIND an application was a nightmare. ‘Dash’?! No, no, more like ‘Painful, zombie-like crawl’ and Hover is the most retarded concept since Microsoft Bob. It’s like a never-ending game of hide and seek to try to find the most basic commands and functions – when they exist.
What did they do? Have a design meeting and say “Gee, let’s take the absolute WORST parts of Mac OS and the WORST parts of Vista and glue them together into Ubuntu! Everyone will love it!” My belief is they either hired a bunch of Microsoft coders or Bill Gates finally threw enough money at them to make such a complete POS that people would hurry to buy Windows 7.
Absolute garbage.
I’m in the process of stripping it off my machine and going back to 10.04.4 64-bit right now. Which FLIES.
Orion
have no idea but seems there must have been some back door deals somewhere. what is noteworthy, is that later ubuntu releases are the mobile interface they were working on. while windows 8 is the desktop INSIDE the digital mobile interface ……….. ubuntu put the digital interface inside the desktop. like one big huge turd you have to get around.
i actually like windows 8 ……… fast puppy. they did it up right. but of course the DRM lockdown will be tighter than ever.
Just wanted to say thanks for this article – Due to driver issues (my sound card is non-functional on Ubuntu 10), I had to go back to 12.10…But stripping off the Unity garbage and going with the Xubuntu desktop…Ahhh! That’s more like it!
Thanks again!
Orion
welcome.
Couple of days ago I had to give up and “upgrade” to 12.10.
I knew the horrible piece of shit that was waiting for me.
While googling every variations of “Unity sucks” and “Unity is a piece of utter crap” and watching with horror the shit getting installed, I found out about classic-gnome package (whoever is the maintainer I love you) and my I got my life back.
You and Orion gave the exact definition of Unity.
Thanks a lot.
most welcome. it was an aborted attempt to create an open-source home screen for mobile that could incorporate the emergency broadcast system for US mobile-droid in general (my deducive reasoning over the years).
admit, i am STILL a coward, and install only Linus prfixed w/the 10. (and enough hard copies around here to start selling them. ) however, the view from SLC differs than most, and we had a HUGE closed down several years ago of an open-source giant in town, was “bought out” by microsoft, and the software so volatile (in lieu of our anti-trust (U.S.A) laws, that the justice system (US) put a “hold” on many of the Linux innovations in general. my conclussions were that Unity or even “Ubuntu” were a ‘plant’ to exploit the hard work of freeware-operators and liscense much of that unders another ‘name’ or ‘shell.’ (windows also has “shells” for their folder-looks (i am primarily a graphics-engineer). onc time ———————- once upon a time i teased someone or said something about MS, to the effect that Bill Gates was busy doing penance in africa. but before THAT i knew many of the older-goats simply gave their fortunes to the United States Treasury. E.