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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
It's interesting to see each desktop OS try for convergence and end up harvesting consumer annoyance -- Apple for concealing the file tree and cloning iOS limitations in Mountain Lion, Windows 8 for the reasons discussed above, and Linux Ubuntu for its Unity GUI. A friend who just installed Ubuntu 13.10 has been telling me that (a) installation was the smoothest he'd ever experienced on his tower -- every driver worked perfectly -- and (b) Unity is a horrorshow. He had the same reaction to the new Linux GUI that many Windows users have had to 8's (i.e., he found a way to delete it).
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I'm running Ubuntu 12.04LTS and it was my first introduction to Unity. Holy Crap!!! What a mess. Luckily Google is your friend and it took a single search, a couple of minutes downloading and installing classic gnome, and I was back in business. Not looking forward to upgrading, but the LTS is supported until April 2017 and I'll just wait.