Stupid cousin.
Most of those reading won't find this useful. I do like feeding Google, though, so here goes...
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 from 10.10.
I am presently engaged in hating it.
Unity was a giant WTFreak era during my adoption, but a few minutes from a friend who 'gets' it helped loads. Now it's just three (big) complaints:
1: Meta-T used to be user-defined by me to open a new terminal. It now brings up the Trash Can. Seriously?!?!?! The Trash Can? Who hotkeys that, and THEN ignores the user-defined overrides?!
1.5: Why do I want a touch-capable interface with my touchpad and mouse? If my touchpad acts like a one-button mouse, how do I do anything? Hobbling along under Gnome is much more feasible.
2: Multiple Desktops. One X session over multiple displays has dead space that makes me nervous, so I use the ATI Catalyst configuration tool to set up multiple X sessions. My initial survey of all my options indicates that Unity has No Concept of this. I have no UI (aside from limited desktop-right-click-menu access) on my second monitor. Anyone with this issue may be interested in running "metacity --replace &" as a functional hack under Ubuntu Classic.
3: Widgets. I want a live CPU usage, temperature, and clockspeed display on my screen. No, pinning apps to the dock WILL NOT WORK. I tried. It doesn't do dynamic icons. Also, I already have my favorite Gnome apps. (Ubuntu 11.04 already killed my temp monitor app.)
Firefox 4.
Why did they rename "Organize Bookmarks" to "Show all bookmarks"??? Really?
New UI? Getting used to it. It is enough like the last one to struggle through it. (Stop Now! If I Wanted Chrome, I Would GET Chrome!!!)
I just spent an hour fighting with it. There is no clear winner. Am I frustrated? A little bit. I'm sure you can't tell.
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