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New look for Ubuntu with the release of Lucid Lynx!
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on March 12, 2010, 06:00:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: iindigo on March 12, 2010, 05:37:41 PM ---Anyway, I'm exiting this argument with a final note - what it boils down to is that UIs need to be a pleasure to use regardless of who is using them.
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Wrong: it's impossible to please everyone no matter what you do.
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Agreed. And the above two have probably never seen the new superbar for win7. It's slightly better than the older versions of windows, but not as "fun" as multiple desktops.
nstgc:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on March 12, 2010, 06:00:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: iindigo on March 12, 2010, 05:37:41 PM ---Anyway, I'm exiting this argument with a final note - what it boils down to is that UIs need to be a pleasure to use regardless of who is using them.
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Wrong: it's impossible to please everyone no matter what you do.
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Agreed, thats why the UI should be as customizable as possible.
--- Quote from: fohfoh on March 12, 2010, 07:12:36 PM ---
--- Quote from: AceHigh on March 12, 2010, 06:00:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: iindigo on March 12, 2010, 05:37:41 PM ---Anyway, I'm exiting this argument with a final note - what it boils down to is that UIs need to be a pleasure to use regardless of who is using them.
--- End quote ---
Wrong: it's impossible to please everyone no matter what you do.
--- End quote ---
Agreed. And the above two have probably never seen the new superbar for win7. It's slightly better than the older versions of windows, but not as "fun" as multiple desktops.
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I don't understand why this sounds so much like you can have one, the other, but not both. The screen shot I posted has the avant windows navigator. While I can't say that there I've seen a UI for an OS with a better start menu than Windows 7, over all, the new superbar falls short of AWN and the OS X Dock (which AWN is clearly modeled after).
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: nstgc on March 12, 2010, 08:32:50 PM ---
--- Quote from: AceHigh on March 12, 2010, 06:00:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: iindigo on March 12, 2010, 05:37:41 PM ---Anyway, I'm exiting this argument with a final note - what it boils down to is that UIs need to be a pleasure to use regardless of who is using them.
--- End quote ---
Wrong: it's impossible to please everyone no matter what you do.
--- End quote ---
Agreed, thats why the UI should be as customizable as possible.
--- Quote from: fohfoh on March 12, 2010, 07:12:36 PM ---
--- Quote from: AceHigh on March 12, 2010, 06:00:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: iindigo on March 12, 2010, 05:37:41 PM ---Anyway, I'm exiting this argument with a final note - what it boils down to is that UIs need to be a pleasure to use regardless of who is using them.
--- End quote ---
Wrong: it's impossible to please everyone no matter what you do.
--- End quote ---
Agreed. And the above two have probably never seen the new superbar for win7. It's slightly better than the older versions of windows, but not as "fun" as multiple desktops.
--- End quote ---
I don't understand why this sounds so much like you can have one, the other, but not both. The screen shot I posted has the avant windows navigator. While I can't say that there I've seen a UI for an OS with a better start menu than Windows 7, over all, the new superbar falls short of AWN and the OS X Dock (which AWN is clearly modeled after).
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That statement was made in retrospect to iindigo's statement about windows being clunky on the interface and w/e. True, its clunky, but it's not THAT clunky.
Xiong Chiamiov:
--- Quote from: iindigo on March 11, 2010, 01:06:20 PM ---This doesn't feel like an upgrade - it looks like something strait out of the XP era.
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The Windows 7 windowing decorations are a straight copy of the most popular QT theme (Oxygen?). The issue is that Ubuntu (combined with the terribleness that was KDE 4.0) has people convinced that Gnome is the prettiest "Linux" there is, which is completely not true, according to most people's aesthetics.
Honestly, Linux can be quite beautiful. Most of us just don't feel the need to make it so.
--- Quote from: fohfoh on March 12, 2010, 02:46:22 AM ---I didn't think compiz was part of the default install....
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For quite some time.
--- Quote from: AceHigh on March 12, 2010, 03:55:00 AM ---He he he... you linux and mac kids can argue about "flashy" and "shiny" and all other gay stuff out there, but the rest of us who actually use OS to run 'something else other than itself will use windows.
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Actually, I use Linux because I do more than just the OS. The occasional 3d game is about all I can use on Windows (well, and Firefox, I suppose).
--- Quote ---Hell, 95% of the time I use a pc, I don't see the desktop and all the shit there. Why do people even care about that?
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Some of us do in fact see our desktops quite frequently.
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: Xiong Chiamiov on March 13, 2010, 05:15:40 AM ---Actually, I use Linux because I do more than just the OS. The occasional 3d game is about all I can use on Windows (well, and Firefox, I suppose).
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To be honest, Linux is useful to me as well for some tasks more then windows. However pretty much all of those tasks are something that don't make me care about desktop.... hell even a screen for that matter. Last time I used Linux it was for the VPN server, vent server etc... in other words anything that has something to do with servers and rarely needs my attention.
In fact I would use Linux instead of Windows if it could run: games and programming applications that I use at work.
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