Comment Re:Linux is supposed to be hard (Score 1) 302
My wife actually prefers the Unity layout to the older Gnome 2 style. I actually asked her what her feeling was when I upgraded her laptop and she was faced with Unity where just a few hours earlier she had been using (for many months) the traditiional Gnome DE. She never complained after that.
For her, the layout and most specifically the "dock" on the left made more sense than a menu driven experience.
Personally, I hated Unity at first. But since they've fixed many of the worst bugs and I've learned my way around it better, I don't have a problem with it. It's just a different way of doing things. Based on my workflow, I can't cast it as really better or worse in a general sense, but would rate it as better since I know it's intended to scale well from desktop/laptop to tablet/phone and so there will be consistency across form factors if and when I ever get a mobile Ubuntu device.