Why don't I want to use Unity?

We all know the new desk of Ubuntu, Shell for Gnome called Unity and that it has earned the affection and contempt of many people.

The intention of this post is not to discredit it, but simply to tell you a little about the advantages and disadvantages that it has from my point of view at least in the version 11.04. In fact, I must say that personally: "I love Unity" but there are very strong reasons that force me not to use it.

I like?

The style "Mac" I have always liked it. The buttons on the top panel, along with the applications tool menu is for me, one of the most successful decisions of the designers of Unity. Okay, it's a copy of Mac OS, but it cannot be denied that the result is very comfortable and saves us space on the screen.

However, in the betas of oneric we can see that now the button with the logo Ubuntu go to Dock (or Launcher, as you prefer), and although I have not tried it, I do not like the idea very much. Maybe I'm still adapted to the feeling that when we click on it, we will get a menu. Contrary to gnome-shell, when we need to use the Dock, this is shown above the window that we have open and therefore, it does not lose focus.

That I do not like it?

The positive things are over for me. The first thing I dislike is the default size of the Dock on screens that are not wide-screen. The feeling that I have no space on the monitor and that the Dock It is an excessively large bar and full of colors, it does not come off with lower resolutions from 1024 × 768.

The fact of being obliged to use Compiz is one of those strong reasons why I don't want to use Unity. Maybe one day I will have a good PC with excellent benefits, but now I don't have it. In fact the only PC that I have is my work and sometimes with 1GB is fair to me. Compiz controls almost everything like who says. Why don't they do a Administration Center for Unity where you can configure the size of the Dock, transparencies and everything else? All that depends on Compiz from what I have seen and I repeat to me, it does not serve me.

Speaking of Dock Who said I use the trash can? Why do they force me to have it stuck there without moving? And the same with desks. What if I want to have more than 4, or have none? And that amount of default colors I don't think is aesthetic at all, more than a professional desk, it denotes being something childish.

If we go up a little higher, to the right (the notification area), we will see that very soon there will not be one more indicator. It's okay to want to integrate it all into the gauges, but that makes the menus too large vertically for my liking. In addition, I like to use the tray and that many applications are minimized in it, so the top panel will be cluttered with icons.

I also don't like the way the option is displayed Run when I press Alt + F2 What was wrong with the little old box with its drop-down history?

That is not to mention the way in which applications now have to be accessed.Lens called? Anyway. It's too many clicks and keystrokes. In Gnome 2 for example, to open an application:

1. Mouse click on the menu Applications.
2. Put the mouse (without clicking) on Accessories and move it to Gedit.
3. Click on Gedit.

That is, 2 clicks and walking. Now in Unity:

1. Click on the icon Ubuntu (or with the Windows).
2. Type what you want to search for (in this case Gedit).
3. You found it? Well, click on the icon.

Just typing is a hassle. And don't tell me that I can add the launcher in it DockBecause if I add everything I use there, the list of icons would be huge and they would have to scroll a lot to find the one I want. Although I must admit that the method to add it is quite simple.

 And these are the reasons why I don't want to use it?

Partly yes, but it is not the most important of all. The main reason I don't want to use Unity, it is because I am obliged to use Ubuntu. I have nothing special against this distro, but I don't want to have to enslave myself to it for using something that I like. In this aspect gnome-shell has an advantage, no matter if it is Fedora, Mageia, openSUSE o Debian, we can use it without any problem in any of them. In fact, I don't understand how Debian, which is where it comes from Ubuntu, cannot be used.

Unity is improving day by day and for the best U also get your good updates for oneric o Ubuntu 12.04, but this version in QtSo far it has presented me with some little problems so I can say that it is still very green.