Ubuntu : What do You Think About Unity? [Poll Results]

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What do you think about Unity?

What do you think about Unity?

Earlier we got to know that Ubuntu is trying to reconsider about making Unity the default shell for Natty Narwhal. Due to several bugs and frequent crashes, the team have called a meeting to discuss this issue… While they are discussing that, we launched a small poll to get the opinion of the normal users about Unity. Many have answered the poll and the results are really interesting…

From the beginning I thought that people like Unity. According to the comments we see on social networks, it looks like Unity is very popular. But, mostly, only professionals leave comments like that. So, we decided to create a poll and got really interesting results :

 

Poll Results

Poll Results

 

Very interesting… Most of our readers want to see the old Gnome shell rather than Unity! Why is this? Is it because of the crashing? I think there’s something else. Why many people find it difficult to move from Windows to Linux? Some say that Linux is not user friendly but its not true. Recently, Linux have evolved a lot. Now it have everything a normal user wants. But why its hard to drop Windows? If you have to leave your home, leave your family and move to a different place… it’ll be really hard for you right? Well, for most of the Windows users, its like their home. So, moving away from that environment to a new one is not easy! I think this might be one of the reasons why people need the old Gnome shell back. What do you think?

Recently, WebUpd8 have confirmed that Ubuntu is going to have Unity by default. But, you will be able to switch back to the Gnome shell through the login screen.

Now, we made a poll for people to vote secretly. But now, its time to come out and leave your opinion as comments like a man! My question is, what do you think about Unity?

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  • http://sorebuttcheeks.blogspot.com/ steroids

    why does there need to be a default instead force people to make their own choice.

    • http://www.techhamlet.com Pubudu@TechHamlet

      Yep… you are absolutely correct mate… Every one will be happy if Ubuntu can ask what desktop we need at the installation!

      • Matt

        As opposed to letting you pick at the login screen? (as it does)

        • http://www.facebook.com/TimGray4 Timothy Gray

          No it does not. It does not pop up a nice window that says “HEY! what UI do you want?” No it’s in a obscure little taskbar at the bottom that on a 21″ monitor is easily missed by the user.

          • Frank

            I thought “power users” would read on features and do their own research rather than be guided by the gui.

    • http://twitter.com/billybites8 BillyBites

      I agree

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000614551198 Daniel Melchior

    i think that unity looks pretty cool, but i like gnome more. i looked at gnome 3 too (just with images from the internet) it looks better than unity, but why doesn’t they use it for ubuntu?

    • http://www.techhamlet.com Pubudu@TechHamlet

      Simple.. Unity is built by Ubuntu. and they think its more compatible with Ubuntu than Gnome 3 D:

  • Jvin248

    They are about the same for the user. What I was dismayed with Unity about was that it is another layer and not a full WM on it’s own so it runs slower. Gnome is big while LXDE is small and picking up performance installations. We’ll see how Unity does.

  • http://www.hoverpchacks.com Vamsi@HoverPcHacks

    It would be great if Ubuntu can ask what desktop we need!!!

  • http://amhou.wordpress.com/ Andrew

    Unity crashes. ‘Nuff said.

    • Frank

      Beta. ‘Nuff said.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_X6DJ764JGBM7YHQK273GXLK63M Otter

        Doesn’t even come close to a Beta. ‘Nuff said

  • http://www.facebook.com/TimGray4 Timothy Gray

    Unity is horrible. I have several users here willing to try it on their work machines so we switched them over for testing. Every single one of them after a week wanted their old setup back. Unity makes it hard for power users who want to access system tools all the time. It’s great for N00bs and the computer illiterate as there are nice shiny buttons to get you to where you want to go, but in the workplace Unity is a utter failure.

    • Matt

      Sorry, but could you explain how ‘Unity makes it hard for power users who want to access system tools’?
      You can click the Ubuntu button at the top left (or hit the Windows key on your keyboard) and start typing ‘settings’ to open a sort of control panel. You can start typing ‘screensaver’ if you specifically want to change your screensaver, or ‘keyboard’ if you want to change keyboard-related settings. If you access the Monitor settings application all the time, you can pin it to the launcher so you can access it with a single click. And so on.

      • Tuluwen

        I don’t want to have to type ANYTHING, when I can get there in 2 clicks in the old interface…

  • MrG.

    horrible – crash prone, freezes, is an obsticle to productivity. If I wanted an experience like that an I wasn’t at a computer, I’d place a rock in my shoe.

  • Mr T.

    Unity is annoying! The little task bar thing occasionally sticks in place and I have to resize my windows so I can access the left side of them. And I don’t know what any of my apps are named. Now that search is the upfront way to find apps I am really hunting around. Some apps I just knew by their icon and placement in the app bar under gnome. If it weren’t for the buggy-ness I might keep trying, but I’m going back to gnome for now.

  • Fabricator4

    Unity is a a departure from the object oriented desktop and a move towards dock type launchers and annoying search apps. It’s also Mark Shuttleworth’s vision of a “zero configuration experience”. Here’s a hint Mark: People who don’t like to tweak won’t, but if they really want to change something then the system has to provide them with the ability to do so.

    Talking about a zero configuration experience sounds too much like wallpapering over the cracks when it’s obvious that Unity is an unfinished and poorly conceived copy of Gnome3

    OS/2 had more object oriented functionality and configurability on its desktop.

    • Fred

      What do you mean by “object oriented functionality”  Object oriented typically refers to a programming methodology.

  • Topher2798

    The current trend with Operating Systems these days seems to be trying to make the user experience “easier and simpler”. This is obviously to cater to the non-technical folks out there. Well… I’m an 18 year veteran in the IT industry I’m sorry to say, but I prefer things to be more complex. I’m not going to sit here and say “Unity sucks”, because obviously for some, it’s great. I’m just not one of those people. Pardon the rough analogy here, but… .You can polish a turd as much as you want, but in the end, it’s still a turd. That being said, a PC is a complex piece of equipment, it’s a very “technical” piece of equipment. You can try and make it look and act as non-technical (or easy) as you want, but at the end of the day, you’re only trying to fool people.

  • Janbroekhof

    Unity: 
    after downloading a Nvidia driver I got it,
    the Unity disease.
    I tried and tried and triedI am witched, bothered and bewilderedand no Unity ever for me.

    Who ever thought this functional?

  • Sbaracco

    I hope they reconsider to use gnome, now that gnome3 is available

  • Andy Braham

    Get rid of unity! Why are developers always trying to reinvent or change stuff that is proven to work? IF ITS NOT BROKEN DONT FIX IT! This is almost a reason to move back to windows! It is insane that they wont even move the damn bar to another side because it is too far from the ubuntu button? WTF! Developers need to learn to listen to users! They are the ones using it!

  • lee986321

    I believe we need to get rid of unity,

    I just want it Simple, and unity makes things to complex.

    What good is an operating system if you can not edit video because the O.S itself can not run the needed program for editing. I tried, and Openshot worked great. untill….crash..I don’t want to have to use XFCE just to edit videos.

    I want a complete system. I want a choice. and I feel that unity pushes that choice away from me.

    I feel that Unity is saying, you have to use XFCE to edit Video.

    This is why I am using Edubuntu 11.04 it gives me a choice.

    where as the others do not.

    Even Ubuntu’s site keeps stating that there working on this issue. Yet they keep Puking out the same thing.

    stop Puking out bad code and pleasereturn to good code. functionallity is more important then eye candy.

    If I want eye candy, I would run windows.