For work reasons I looked at Ubuntu 12.04, Precise 32bit under VMWare Player.<\/p>\n
From early reviews, etc., I was prepared for being underwhelmed by the Unity user interface. I was not prepared for a disaster.<\/p>\n
Here are some tag lines that come to mind:<\/p>\n
“Ubuntu Precise – for those who cannot figure out a mouse.”<\/p>\n
“Ubuntu Precise – bringing the worst of bad phone UI design to a desktop frighteningly near you.”<\/p>\n
“Ubuntu Precise – the most expensive free OS in existence.”<\/p>\n
“Ubuntu Precise – for those who never ever want to resize or scroll a window.”<\/p>\n
“Ubuntu Precise – with an immutable, ‘Halloween from Elm Street’ desktop theme loved by 32 year old boys in their mother’s basements worldwide.”<\/p>\n
“Ubuntu Precise – breaking 10 years of software improvements to squeeze a whole ‘UI’ in to an icon-sized area at the top left corner of your bare-bones, dual 24″ 1080p monitor system.”<\/p>\n
“Ubuntu Precise – the OS for people who struggle with only 500 icons on their desktops.”<\/p>\n
“Ubuntu Precise – type partial app names to see icons that do nothing.”<\/p>\n
The list goes on and on.<\/p>\n
What’s truly unfortunate is that Precise, by all accounts, has many small but real improvements over Lucid in particular programs and sub-systems.<\/p>\n
If Lucid ran Office, a normal person could probably drop Windows and deal with Linux USB and general non-Windows issues. Lucid has pluses over XP and even Win7 to balance the minuses. But I’d not point anyone to Precise. It’s simply not a working system.<\/p>\n
And we may use it in a product, desktop-less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For work reasons I looked at Ubuntu 12.04, Precise 32bit under VMWare Player. From early reviews, etc., I was prepared for being underwhelmed by the Unity user interface. I was not prepared for a disaster. Here are some tag lines … Continue reading