Everything about Ubuntu, from its "Human" default theme to
the "Chocolate" default background, to the
RMS
approved
default package set is polished. I'm big on the concept of
a unified desktop appearance. To a certain degree,
a set of user interface guidelines should govern the overall
appearance of the desktop, and distributed software should
comply with at least a basic set of these guidelines. This
is one of the things I liked most about the Red Hat/Fedora
desktop experience, it's one of the reasons I prefer
Gnome to
KDE. (Plus I like rooting
for the little guy, and Gnome is definitely the little guy)
It takes a really robust GUI to get me to abandon a console
command line interface. Most often, I can accomplish
everyday system administration tasks in less time with an
xterm than I can with most graphical interfaces. Ubuntu
is the exception, not because their console is any less powerful
than you'd expect from a
Debian based distro,
but because their GUI smoothes over the shortcomings of
Gnome and accentuates the real innovations of
Project Utopia.
This is how all desktops would work in a perfect world.
Note the USB hard drive automagically appearing in the upper
left corner. That's what we call Utopia.
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