I actually grew used to using Unity after some time, so much so that I now prefer even the windows taskbar to be on the side of the screen and not on the bottom when I am on a windows box.
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I put the Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn as my desktop* for my Windows machine to help me feel better when I have to use it :P
*Edit: I mean as my wallpaper.
Wait, you mean to say you run unity as the DE for the windows OS?
No, I think he's literally running Unity on Windows 10. I believe it's possible with WSL layer and Ubuntu for Windows 10.
edit: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/07/someone-just-installed-un...
Wow, that's really cool! Though rather un-amazingly I just meant as a wallpaper :/
I take it to mean that he uses that as a desktop wallpaper. No?
Yes :D
Sorry, I mean it's my wallpaper :/
[0] http://www.linuxidc.com/upload/2014_10/14102720535951.jpg
I like Unity too. It has sane keyboard shortcuts out of the box, and I really love how it's so economical with precious vertical screen estate.
Yes, I fully agree that use of the sides of the letter-box shaped wide screens was a good move, probably an inheritance of Unity from its Netbook incarnation. However, I found aspects of Unity in previous versions a little 'busy' and reverted to Gnome (I am one of those people who actually like Gnome Shell. Probably the result of 18 months on dwm with meta key bound to Mod4).
Busyness: 1) hit Alt-F to bring up (say) the Save As dialog box within an application but hesitate a few milliseconds on the Alt key and you get the HUD. HUD was a genius move for using desktop apps on a tablet or similar but you need to be able to bind it to something like the CapsLock key or something).
2) For quite a few releases, Alt-chord mnemonics were broken, but have now been restored, except you have to release the Alt key after the first note of the chord. For instance to insert a formula in LibreOffice Writer, you type Alt-IOF but in Unity (and Gnome) you have to actually type this: Press-Alt-Type-I-Release-Alt-Type-OF.
3) I recollect (14.04? that moving the mouse pointer anywhere near the top left corner brought up the dash by default but sometimes you wanted a menu item
4) Top bar menus on a large screen with multiple windows and multiple applications - huge trek to top bar with risk of target application losing focus.
5) Maximised window with application, user goes to close application but brings up the shutdown menu by mistake (top right of screen).
6) For ages, the Dash took a long time to arrive compared to Gnome (hit Windows key in a live session of Ubuntu and compare with hitting windows in a live session of Fedora Workstation).
PS: Canonical Design used to release details of user testing of Unity. Not so much recently. Anyone know of any user testing results on this?