<story><title>Seven Minutes in Ubuntu: A Mac user&apos;s first impressions</title><url>http://thomaspark.me/2011/10/seven-minutes-in-ubuntu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chimeracoder</author><text>First: This is really a review of Unity, not Ubuntu. The main ways that Ubuntu/Linux differ from OS X have nothing to do with the UI, but rather the underlying system.&lt;p&gt;That said, I&apos;m glad to see that somebody likes Unity. Ubuntu&apos;s switch to Unity is one of the reasons that I left Ubuntu for another distro.&lt;p&gt;It seems like Canonical is targeting its product more towards people like the author of this post, in which case it seems that their strategy may be working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fl3tch</author><text>Those of us who have been using Gnome 2 for years have already streamlined and optimized our work flow in that environment. Whenever the UI changes, it breaks existing patterns of behavior that we usually don&apos;t even think about anymore. That&apos;s why people don&apos;t like change: it makes them less productive, at least temporarily as they streamline a new work flow.  People didn&apos;t like the MS Office ribbon interface, the KDE 4 interface, etc., either.  Even when Ubuntu moved the window controls to the left side, I found myself automatically and subconsciously moving the pointer to the right and clicking on an empty space, which was wasted effort and time, until I relearned that behavior.&lt;p&gt;People who haven&apos;t used Linux / Gnome before don&apos;t have those expectations and optimizations, so it&apos;s not surprising that they will have a more positive view of Unity. Also, Canonical &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; trying to make Unity emulate OS X to some extent, so the interface meets some expectations of Mac users. They will probably respond more positively.</text></comment>
<story><title>Seven Minutes in Ubuntu: A Mac user&apos;s first impressions</title><url>http://thomaspark.me/2011/10/seven-minutes-in-ubuntu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chimeracoder</author><text>First: This is really a review of Unity, not Ubuntu. The main ways that Ubuntu/Linux differ from OS X have nothing to do with the UI, but rather the underlying system.&lt;p&gt;That said, I&apos;m glad to see that somebody likes Unity. Ubuntu&apos;s switch to Unity is one of the reasons that I left Ubuntu for another distro.&lt;p&gt;It seems like Canonical is targeting its product more towards people like the author of this post, in which case it seems that their strategy may be working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keithpeter</author><text>To apply your first point to your second paragraph: Unity is not Ubuntu. Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and roll your own systems based on the boxes (Openbox, Fluxbox) abound.&lt;p&gt;I use Xubuntu on my netbook as my students can work out how to get a wordprocessor going or load a youtube video in class.&lt;p&gt;On the desktop pc I use dwm (large widescreen monitor) and I&apos;m loving the efficiency. In fact, I install dmenu on all the computers and bind it to Super-Space.</text></comment>