| Nobody likes unity except for a few. I wish people would stop putting this line without anything backing it up. We've had this conversation recently, and it turns out that actually not everyone hates Unity [1]. Besides my comments, here's a sampling: "Unity is the best desktop I've ever used." "I like Unity... I rarely go into a forum and announce how much I like something." "'it's not as bad as everyone says.' This is the camp I fall in. " "People that are happy with their desktop environment are not particularly likely to go to some site and talk about how good it is." "unity is what you get by default on ubuntu? if so, i really like it" "Never used Unity but I really enjoy Gnome 3" Point being, you can't listen to people complaining then say "oh hey, there are 50 people complaining out of millions of users, this must be pretty awful". People will always complain more than they will praise, especially for a desktop environment. You might not like it, but you can't seriously extend that out to everyone save a few. Point being, people do like Unity and Gnome 3. But the people who would rather complain about something they don't like (and aren't forced to use) tend to be loudmouths. The silent majority just don't care. So if you're stating that nobody except a few likes Unity or Gnome 3, I'm going to have to call your bluff. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4318228 |
I miss Unity so badly (well Linux in general) when forced to use Windows at work. I agree that the major focus of Linux should be science, development and data analysis. That's where a lot of the users are (its why I run Linux) and focusing on that would be, if not a huge market, a very dedicated and professional one.