Not as pessimistic
It's definitely still rough, but having just handed off a laptop to a client whose Windows HD died and I replaced it with Ubuntu 11.04 until he could dig up his install discs, Ubuntu still has it. The client after using the machine for 3 days decided it was exactly what he needed and intended not to factory restore the new HD.
It's very clean and fast on the right hardware. Shuttleworth, I think, bit off a bit more than he could chew with the aggresive roadmap for releasing Unity.
The user experience is a clear shift from the Gnome/KDE paradigm, which will annoy people who are used to doing things a certain way, and that way hasn't been properly addressed in Unity, but with OSX Lion now hitting the market with touch capabilities built in... If by 12.04 Ubuntu starts showing up on tablets / becomes easier to install on tablets, people will be singing a different tune. I want very much to give 11.10 a go on an HP TouchSmart desktop (or better yet, on my ASUS Transformer's microSD).
Patience.
It's definitely still rough, but having just handed off a laptop to a client whose Windows HD died and I replaced it with Ubuntu 11.04 until he could dig up his install discs, Ubuntu still has it. The client after using the machine for 3 days decided it was exactly what he needed and intended not to factory restore the new HD.
It's very clean and fast on the right hardware. Shuttleworth, I think, bit off a bit more than he could chew with the aggresive roadmap for releasing Unity.
The user experience is a clear shift from the Gnome/KDE paradigm, which will annoy people who are used to doing things a certain way, and that way hasn't been properly addressed in Unity, but with OSX Lion now hitting the market with touch capabilities built in... If by 12.04 Ubuntu starts showing up on tablets / becomes easier to install on tablets, people will be singing a different tune. I want very much to give 11.10 a go on an HP TouchSmart desktop (or better yet, on my ASUS Transformer's microSD).
Patience.
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