Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Like it or not, this Linux grows on you

Hardon stated in post oZAmr.125030$ on
4/27/12 10:48 AM:

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/0...eview/>

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Happiness is HUD+Unity

Review Ubuntu 12.04, the fourth major Long Term Support (LTS) release
for Ubuntu, is serious stuff. LTS editions of Ubuntu are delivered
every two years and have extended support from Canonical. They also
set the look of the coming years' releases. And this LTS, codenamed
Precise Pangolin, has had its support extended from three to five
years by Canonical.

Why does all this matter? Because Ubuntu 12.04 will be the first time
many of Ubuntu's more conservative customers – especially those in
business – will face the controversial Unity interface that replaced
the conventional GNOME. It re-oriented the interface for more touch
and introduced a more 3D look and feel.

Also in the PC edition of this LTS is HUD: Head Up Display. The idea
of the HUD interface is to dispense with the tried-and-tested
drop-down menus setup, and instead to allow users to access features
and invoke commands using search and natural-language autocomplete.
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I am installing it now... though my VM provider might not support it fully
for a couple weeks. We shall see. I look forward to playing with it.

On 27 Apr 2012 17:48:04 GMT, Hardon wrote:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Like it or not, this Linux grows on you

Yea, like toe fungus on unwashed feet.

Foster stated in post t0omnovf3o7q$ on 4/27/12
3:05 PM:

On 27 Apr 2012 17:48:04 GMT, Hardon wrote:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Like it or not, this Linux grows on you

Yea, like toe fungus on unwashed feet.

Only played with it for a couple minutes, but already I see a mix and match
view of UI elements: Do you use Quit or Exit to close a program? Or close?
That is the option in some - so now we have three terms.

What should a print dialog look like?

Are menus tied to the window or put on the top of the screen?

And the close widget is hidden until you move to the top of the screen...
but only for some programs. OS X got some flack for not having the X show
until you were near the close widget - but at least the widget was there!

And the name of the program is in the upper left but gets partially hidden
as you move there to get to the menus which do not even show up... just odd.

And is it Edit > Preferences or Tools > Options to get to the settings for
the program?

Shuttleworth gets the idea that usability is important... but somewhere he
and his team are just missing the concept in implementation. Part of it is
from the mess that comes from being tied to the OSS ecosystem, but this is
just not impressive... not to me, anyway.

A shame, I was really hoping to like this.