Comment Re:Quick question (Score 1) 179
I came, I saw, I hated Unity. I still do, pretty much.
But it you install Classic Menu or CairoDock then you have access to the old way menus for finding your installed apps, and you can ignore Unity entirely (but I occasionally hit the Unity sidebar for some minor convenience from time to time).
Some lessons I have learned for working with Ubuntu if, like most people, you just want a desktop environment that lets you do your work efficiently, employing established knowledge and skills and not have to muck about with solving problems created by the distribution and its UI:
- Only ever install the LTS version, otherwise you find yourself dealing with Shuttleworth's "experiments" and support gets terminated in 18 months,
- Only ever select the default UI (Unity in this case). I tried every alternative to Unity first, but every one had some basic feature that was seriously broken and could not be fixed in a reasonable amount of effort. Guess only the primary UI gets sent to QA.
I will be trying the new LTS after it has been out a little while.