Disunity, disagreements & non-discursiveness
Out local LUG had plenty of users decrying the Apple-copying Unity. It's about a third as easy to use as Gnome 2 - & demands new keyboarding skills, to accommodate its screening off of the raw power of Gnome 2 desktop. Why did they do it ? " Follow the money " .. investor power, crippleware, lock users into corporate blind-sideing, narrowing of focus. All that, .. and a whole lot more. In an age of user lockdowns, OS desktop lockdowns are well in vogue .. Unity is nowhere as good as the native Mac OS desktop ( BSD with bells & whistles ). Unity Ubuntu on a Mac is just deadly. Anyone had a go at rEFIt & Co. ? Fickle, frail, fragile, & liable to die the death early. No thanx. Back to the underlying Debian OS, for me