Unity Revamped Adds New Features to Ubuntu 12.04

* UNITY no matter what they do to it nobody wants it and everyone hates it and Ubuntu has lost every follower they had in the IT college world because of the BS changes that they have made... I won't use Ubuntu anymore I just go right to the source now Debian because I can't stand the moron making decisions for Ubuntu and the desktop world... he has no clue all the people he has lost that loved Ubuntu just because of Unity and the moron is to stupid to admit it to lol

Strange I use Unity every day and find it very usable, preferring it to Gnome 3. Maybe it is a experience thing, I used Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME, W2K, XP, Vista and 7. I can also happily work in Apple OSX and will manage to find my way around LXDE, KDE and XFCE desktop environments. So a different way of doing things with Unity is not really not a big deal. Most people do not like Unity because they cannot face the idea of change, the 'I have always done it that way and that is the way I always want to do it' mentality. Even I did not like Unity at first but 11.10 changed my mind and when I get time I will be upgrading to 12.04 for the additional features that version of Unity offers.

Ubuntu is free (as in beer) if you do not like it do not use it, but please stop whinging about how it is not to your liking. You are not the rest of the world so you do not know that the rest of the world hates Unity. Mark Shuttleworth has probably help raised the profile of Linux more than any one person in the last six years. Just because he has done something you do not like that is no reason to call him a moron. It is his company, his money, his time and quite frankly he can do whatever the hell he wants to. Somehow I think that while he takes onboard comments like yours they are not going to sway him from the path he want to take.

Are you telling me that an IT student can't figure out how to install one of the dozen or so other Linux desktop environments that are available. It takes about five minutes for a layperson to do. Unity is a good new interface, but you don't have to use it! I think Shuttleworth understands that for Linux to be adopted by the general public, it would need to be attractive and innovative. Most of the complainers I read in comments seem to claim to be IT geeks and programers that should know better than anyone that they don't need to use Unity.

I'm not going to go as far as tymak2 but PLEASE...I have 30 years of software engineering experience with a variety of OS's. Why did to hide something as simple as the TERMINAL launcher. Come on! My 12.04 LTS finished installed 15 minutes ago and I still have not found the TERMINAL launcher. BAD. This smacks of MS trying to do away with DOS years ago. I mostly manage our systems with ssh logins but I like to use a GUI desktop sometimes. But, please, put the TERMINAL launcher some place more obvious.

@davidm52 : If you have 30 years in IT engineering then you should know : ctrl+alt+T

Despite Unity's rough 11.10 incarnation, the 12.04 version is slick and even runs smoothly in 3D on my kitchen-counter machine, an old Toshiba Satellite with a 2GHz Celeron M processor and 2GB of memory. I like not having nested menus to deal with. I like having the launcher, and the ability now to Dodge Windows. It's intuitive, slick, fast, and easy.

While I don't use the HUD, I'm sure it has its proponents in the power-user segment, so I'm glad it's there for them.

Among the things I like about it is the attention it draws from people sitting nearby when I start my machine. Of course, part of that is my main machine itself, a Samsung Series 9 which itself is pretty and slick. Samsung and Ubuntu with Unity is a VERY lethal combination. It's rare that someone doesn't ask me how to get Ubuntu, and then are surprised that it's free.

And the very best thing of all is that it looks so good compared to anything Windows-y or Mac-y, and so unique.