5 Out of 11 Crashed Unity In Canonical's Study

dkd903 writes "Today the results of the Default Desktop User Testing for Ubuntu 11.04 was published by Canonical's Rick Spencer. The test was done using 11 participants from different backgrounds to test the new Unity interface that Ubuntu 11.04 will have." Though the Unity interface in the upcoming Ubuntu is a moving target, the bad news from this test is that about half of the testers managed to crash it.

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Because what is the alternative?

[SmallFurryCreature]

You got to find your niche as a distro. You can go boring and stable, or exciting and cutting edge... of course there are those who think stable is exciting but we don't talk about BSD people here... they smell funny.

Ubuntu wants to provide a great DESKTOP user experience. This means they got to follow the edge of Linux development because Linux by itself is not all that user friendly. Just try to do a CentOS install, text mode only, at the end you select the base packages, make a wrong choice, you can do it all over again as it hangs. That is in 2011. Compared to Ubuntu, the other distro's are still stuck in 2000. Suse and Mandriva tried to be more userfriendly but failed to do it as well as Ubuntu does because they still cared about stability more then pushing out the latest.

And even Ubuntu ain't all that cutting edge.

If you don't like it? Don't use it. But that means wresting with the other distro's far less friendly install and package choices.

Was Pulse Audio to soon? Yes but on the other hand, other distro's still think OSS is cutting edge And now that Pulse Audio does work, Ubuntu is ahead of the rest. Why do you think Ubuntu is so fucking popular? All the whiners complain about Pulse Audio and STILL use Ubuntu because the rest just ain't competing. Not for the desktop.

As for long term support. Just fucking upgrade already. What are you, a windows user who still needs windows 3.1 because he is to cheap to buy new software or have it retro-fitted? No wonder the economy is grinding to a halt. Wanna bet the chinese aren't worried about keeping decade old software running? Companies replace trucks every three years because it makes no sense to keep an old truck running when a new one will save you fuel, but lets keep decade old software that is full of bugs and performs like it was written by Bill Gates himself running at all costs and never upgrade.

Ubuntu pushes the edge. Not everyone can stand that. Go back to Red Hat and enjoy software so old SCO is still sueing it.