=============================================================== From: Lynn Dixon ------------------------------------------------------ If they stick with Unity, I dont think they will be very viable for businesses. Sure, Unity is "revolutionary" which is fine for a home and personal desktop OS, but large companies still prefer something familiar that a user can sit behind and get accustomed to quickly. Which means, sadly, some type of "Windows-ish" GUI. Unity, and have no intentions of Gnome being back as their main GUI. I used to love Ubuntu, but after they went to Unity, I will avoid it like the plague. I havent really loved it like I used to since 9.04 or even 10.04 LTS. 10.04 LTS is my favorite,
=============================================================== From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ Have checked out metro in windows 8? ----- Original Message ----- From: Lynn Dixon To: CHUGALUG Sent: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:12:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [Chugalug] ubuntu 12.04 LTS focuses on corp desktop extends support 5 years If they stick with Unity, I dont think they will be very viable for businesses. Sure, Unity is "revolutionary" which is fine for a home and personal desktop OS, but large companies still prefer something familiar that a user can sit behind and get accustomed to quickly. Which means, sadly, some type of "Windows-ish" GUI. I used to love Ubuntu, but after they went to Unity, I will avoid it like the plague. I havent really loved it like I used to since 9.04 or even 10.04 LTS. 10.04 LTS is my favorite, http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/ubuntu-linux-will-try-for-the-business-desktop/9806
=============================================================== From: Lynn Dixon ------------------------------------------------------ Yeah, we have the dev release at work now, but our company has decided to stay with win7 due to it being familiar. 8 will cause to much adoption headache for our users.
=============================================================== From: William Wade ------------------------------------------------------ Win7 from XP is really too much of an adoption headache for us, but we have having to do it for new machines. ion e and ans, e even iness-desktop/9806
=============================================================== From: Lynn Dixon ------------------------------------------------------ We are in the process of replacing close to 10K Windows XP machines with Win7. With the proper GPO's (Well created GPO's that is) the changeover has been pretty smooth for us so far. Since Win7 still has the same basic "Window-ish" layout, with the Start buttons, program menus, and windows being pretty much the same basic configuration as WinXP, our end users have had a really good acceptance of it. We now have about 3K machines upgraded to Win7, and have had very very few issues. So far, we are on track to have 95% of our environment upgraded to Win7 before the sunset is given on XP from MS.
=============================================================== From: William Wade ------------------------------------------------------ We have no where near as many machines, but because we are a scientific lab legacy equipment and software is our biggest iceberg, with retraining users #2. We still have a box and an internal only server running Windows 2000. over has ic ve pgraded track to n te: option home means, to or even business-desktop/9806
=============================================================== From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ WIMP is going away. The only holdout is apple and they are merging iOS with OSX. So who knows where that will go.Not saying I'm happy about it. But the writing is on the wall. After sitting with it I gotten used unity and if I don't like I can install something else.I will say this, I have done a few recent installs for non-geeks and they do like unity. I honestly thought they would rebel. But they haven't ----- Original Message ----- From: Lynn Dixon To: CHUGALUG Sent: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:41:29 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [Chugalug] ubuntu 12.04 LTS focuses on corp desktop extends support 5 years We are in the process of replacing close to 10K Windows XP machines with Win7. With the proper GPO's (Well created GPO's that is) the changeover has been pretty smooth for us so far. Since Win7 still has the same basic "Window-ish" layout, with the Start buttons, program menus, and windows being pretty much the same basic configuration as WinXP, our end users have had a really good acceptance of it. We now have about 3K machines upgraded to Win7, and have had very very few issues. So far, we are on track to have 95% of our environment upgraded to Win7 before the sunset is given on XP from MS. Win7 from XP is really too much of an adoption headache for us, but we have having to do it for new machines.
=============================================================== From: Dave Brockman ------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It's optional, is it not? (Metro UI) (Like Aero is Optional)? Regards, dtb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6nELUACgkQABP1RO+tr2QTCACeN+X8wEJE+vnkAVHg4dQZrlzr qPAAoJOjTxxzStJUpAlZRwyY8HH6U/Tn =DxdC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
=============================================================== From: Dan Lyke ------------------------------------------------------ On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:12:15 -0400 Lynn Dixon wrote: Yeah, Charlene upgraded and is struggling with Unity. I've got the Xfce install running on her laptop right now, my guess is that if I can figure out how to do the "Most Recent Documents" folder she'll be *way* happier with it. Dan