It seems to have been designed by someone who had been told about GUIs, but took all the wrong lessons from that, making using the GUI the thing you have to concentrate on, getting in the way of working.
Firm agreement from here.
This is part of the tragedy and the mystery of Ubuntu's Unity.
One distro vendor made a serious effort to make a good desktop. It succeeded. But a lot of people don't know how to drive Windows via the keyboard, and they don't know OS X, and they couldn't use it and wouldn't learn.
SUSE got forcibly merged with a GNOME company. Before, it sponsored a fair bit of KDE, and had the best KDE. Now, it's another GNOME distro and KDE is turning on itself without any adults at the wheel and it's going insane.
(GNOME did that a decade ago.)
It appears that if you have a multiplicity of GUIs, you get a lot of half-arsed ones. If a commercial organisation puts a lot of work into polishing one, it can at least be less crude.
Indeed. The odd thing is that the Chinese, unbothered by Western flailing, have made two pretty and usable desktops: UKUI and Deepin.
UKUI is somehow under the auspices of Ubuntu, at least loosely, and it could do worse than make it official.
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Firm agreement from here.
This is part of the tragedy and the mystery of Ubuntu's Unity.
One distro vendor made a serious effort to make a good desktop. It succeeded. But a lot of people don't know how to drive Windows via the keyboard, and they don't know OS X, and they couldn't use it and wouldn't learn.
SUSE got forcibly merged with a GNOME company. Before, it sponsored a fair bit of KDE, and had the best KDE. Now, it's another GNOME distro and KDE is turning on itself without any adults at the wheel and it's going insane.
(GNOME did that a decade ago.)
Indeed. The odd thing is that the Chinese, unbothered by Western flailing, have made two pretty and usable desktops: UKUI and Deepin.
UKUI is somehow under the auspices of Ubuntu, at least loosely, and it could do worse than make it official.