What Are You Doing Right Now

Cinnamon is great, best desktop I've ever used. Why did he leave Mint, though? Mint is SO polished. I supposed if you have an Ubuntu server environment that you keep on 15.10 and you really want everything to match... but that seems a stretch.

MattSpeller

@scottalanmiller said:

@brianlittlejohn said:

@scottalanmiller I've never used Unity Desktop, thought I would give it a go.

Ewww... worst desktop I've ever used. I mean literally worse than Windows and Mac OSX.

Okay, NOT as bad as Windows 8, but not as good as Windows 7 or 10.

Try running it from a live CD haha

brianlittlejohn

@scottalanmiller What made it so bad?

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@brianlittlejohn said:

Installing Ubuntu 15.10 on my work laptop.

Why?

Great question - is Ubuntu typically thought of as a desktop OS?

It is... but for bad reasons. My opinion is that Ubuntu got huge funding somewhere to undermine the Linux world and poured money into advertising the worst desktop you could imagine as "user friendly" to convince newbies that Linux was hard. The amount of damage that it did to Linux is unreal. For a decade people would all say "Oh, new to Linux, try Ubuntu" when, very obviously, Ubuntu was the hardest to use, least supported, worst newbie experience you could imagine. Every old Linux system was better. Mint took the crap that was an Ubuntu desktop and turned it into something glorious... by replacing everything that faces the end user.

So yes, it is thought of as a desktop... by non-technical end users and people who have never explored the Linux ecosystem at all.

scottalanmiller

@brianlittlejohn said:

@scottalanmiller What made it so bad?

Interface. It's a "moron interface" designed for people who never need to go to the menu. So if you never need ANYTHING but a massive web browser button and never want to so much as manage a file, it's only kind of crappy. But ChomeOS does that way better. It's the worst of all options... overly simple so you can't actually do anything, totally wastes the desktop space and makes getting to apps a huge pain.

MattSpeller

@scottalanmiller said:

@brianlittlejohn said:

@scottalanmiller What made it so bad?

Interface. It's a "moron interface" designed for people who never need to go to the menu. So if you never need ANYTHING but a massive web browser button and never want to so much as manage a file, it's only kind of crappy. But ChomeOS does that way better. It's the worst of all options... overly simple so you can't actually do anything, totally wastes the desktop space and makes getting to apps a huge pain.

My favourite part is when it punishes you for searching for things by thrashing the disk and using lots of fades / animations / GPU heavy stuff.