Occupy Linux: Ubuntu Unity and making a Linux for more than the 1%

ClarifyLinux  Note: Even though I was pretty pissed off with Canonical for the Unity crap, I still support them. I've calmed down a bit and have even tried to use Unity as well as Gnome Shell. I'll stick with my Natty install for now until 12.04, but I will still stay with Ubuntu. 

Anyway... I liked this article. He's right... Canonical is trying to get the 99%.

The most recent release of Ubuntu Linux, Ubuntu 11.10, included a big change — a shift from the standard GNOME desktop environment to a new one, called Unity. (If you’re not familiar with it, you can take it for a test drive here without needing to download or install anything.)

I had my reservations about Unity, but after using it for a while I can report that I’ve been pleasantly surprised; it’s easy to use and really does make some common tasks easier.

If you listen to some corners of the Linux community, though, you’d think that Unity was the worst thing since Nickelback. Here’s a representative sample, helpfully titled “Why Ubuntu 11.10 fills me with rage” so you know immediately that it’s Serious Business:

Look, I’ve been using Unity for the last six months, which is almost as long as I have been using Mac OS X, and I’m still completely disoriented.

I understand fully what Canonical is trying to do with the user interface, which is to make it palatable to Joe Average End User. I dig that, really. But there’s no way to really customize your desktop and make it optimized for the way you work.

With all due respect to Jason Perlow, the guy who wrote that piece for ZDNet: no, you don’t get what Canonical is trying to do.

read more at the source:
http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2011/12/occupy-linux-ubuntu-unity-and-making-a-linux-for-more-than-the-1/