Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs?

Brad1138 writes "You see complaints about the 'next gen' GUI's all over the place, but do we really all hate them? Personally, I don't like them — I tried very hard to like Unity in Ubuntu 11.04/11.10 before giving up and switching to Mint (I am very happy there currently). But is it the vocal minority doing all the complaining, or is it the majority? Are we just too set in our ways?"

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Re:The new UI is not made for us

[Alex Belits]

I like shiny 3d windows -- I run Gnome 2 with Compiz, and I can assure everyone that Desktop Cube + 3D Windows + Sphere deformation mode is very shiny and very much 3D. It also allows me to bind "Rotate Left" and "Rotate Right" to side buttons on my mouse, so I can switch between 6 viewports on each of my three screens (each on a separate computer, with Synergy handling the input) by just moving mouse and pressing otherwise useless side buttons.

Guess what no longer works in Gnome 3, and is painfully slow on one of my computers in Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity? Compiz!