Let’s not become purists and restrict people from using their two-button easy-to-use mouse on their computers, that would be hypocrisy.

And I don’t want people to not install Ubuntu One, I want it not to exist in the first place.

Love you :)

I do agree with you that the having dock on the left is a big problem, but I believe that it can be put on the bottom (or, if you can’t, I bet someone else has found a solution to it). I preferred having the launcher button on the upper left corner, not on the first slot. Also, placing the minimize, maximize, and close buttons on the left is another awful mistake (which I think has a solution too). Fortunately I can use either CTRL+W, CTRL+Q, or ALT+F4 to close my applications insted of clicking those buttons.

I also don’t like the oversimplification of settings in Ubuntu. They removed the possibility of changing many settings from the system configuration and preferences menu and that forces people to use the CLI to tweak the system, which is out of reach for most unexperienced users, like me.

I like typing the name of my applicaitons in the menu because it helps me find them faster, rather than having to go through Gnome’s menu to click my application. I disliked that they moved the menu button from the top left corner to the first place on the icons. If there’s a faster way to find applications in Gnome, then I have no idea.

By the way, Ubuntu One offers a free account service with some free gigabytes of storage with the possibility of paying a subscription for bigger storage options. Furthermore, using free software exclusively is not the main focus of Ubuntu, the emphasis is on the ease of use; although many dislike proprietary software, it is fair game for others. Let’s not become purists and restrict people from installing proprietary software on their computers, that would be hypocrisy.

If you check distro watch, Lubuntu has had a hugh increase in popularity, probably because of the confusing and awful interface of the new Ubuntu and the KDE derivative.

The only think I liked about KDE was that you could quarter a window to snap in place (eg, drag window to bottom left and you re-size it to bottom left quarter of screen, mid-left and it would act like Win7 or Unity, top and it would maximize).

AND YEAH! WHERE ARR THE F’ING MENUS?

In addition, after installation of 11.10 using the update feature my desktop and apps looked like a mixture of KDE and Gnome, totally awful. I used the CCSM and after a few configurations my desktop was completely wracked. It did not show me the launcher, the small area on the right top where the network, shutdown, etc., icons resided did not show up. I could not switch to a different user to try to fix things from there. I was able to get back a desktop with about 2 hours work.

As epthnation said, using the computer is now 5 times slower and more effort. My solution for now, until the gnome 2 backport, or whatever it is called, will bring back a workable desktop, is to just have a terminal window open at any time. A keyboard short cut brings will bring it to focus from everywhere, and I start my applications from there. Back to the old days of alias-ing and two-letter abbreviations of the applications. WOW that is progress.

I teach a computer science class at the college. I was using a course in “operating systems” to show my students advantages of Linux. Desktop-wise they are gone at the moment.

I installed Ubuntu last night, and boy am I disappointed. I’ve been logged into Ubuntu for maybe a total of 20 minutes, and completely broken it twice already. The first time I was trying to get the cube thing going that I saw on youtube, and the GUI completely disappeared, just bammo, GONE!

So after doing a complete repair which didn’t change anything, and logging over to windows for a bit to check online, I find out how to get any type of box open to set everything back to default. Not more than 60 seconds after setting everything back to default, and finally being able to do something again, I drag a window to the right, and half way through the action, BAMMO, GUI is gone again! WTF is going on?

I was really looking forward to a Windows alternative, but I must say, Microsoft got a lot of things right with Windows 7, and so far, the only thing Ubuntu seems capable of doing is disappearing.