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Okay, I get it Ubuntu bashing is the new fad. But cmon, they are providing more choice here. For small screens global menu and close button on the system panel save a lot of vertical space. Now they are providing an option to the guys with big screens to have local menus so they don't have to keep on selecting windows to access their menus. What's wrong in it?

I have come to like unity the way it is, though I didn't in the beginning. I support Ubuntu in the spirit of open source and to be free to do things you want to do and in the way you like.

It's very strange indeed to hear complaints about making new stuff from hackers. Don't we all do it? Sometimes for nothing else but for our heart's desire?




Making new stuff for your heart's desire is excellent. Art is a vital part of life. Inflicting something upon millions of people should, however, be about what they need. I did not volunteer to be a participant in somebody's half-assed art project, and if I did, it wouldn't be using my work laptop.


Nothing is being inflicted, Nobody forces users to use Ubuntu, they do it because they like it. That is not to say that they should be deaf to community feedback. If it's so bad it is going to lose market share but Ubuntu really is popular and people seem to still like it. The people who dislike it are just way more vocal that's all. Why bitch about something that's free AND when you have plenty of choices?




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