Reading this makes me want to keep developing on a MacBook. I love Linux, but when I'm reminded of all the wasted time and hacks spent on configuring hardware and researching problems, it makes me happy to stay trapped with OSX.
<i>"...Unity is horribly inefficient with screen space, and getting anything done requires a ton of mouse clicks and waiting for menus to load."</i><p>Screen space: The launcher can be set to auto-hide, giving you the same amount of space you'd have on OS X with an auto-hidden dock.<p>Mouse clicks: Unity actually impressed me with the amount of attention they paid to keyboard use. Hold down the Super key and you'll see all of the shortcuts. It also makes application menu items searchable without a mouse.<p>Waiting for menus to load: 12.10 and earlier have been terrible about that. I'm running 13.04 (the next version in development) and they've made it much better.
Dell Laptops are really very confusing with the fn key. My inspiron required me to press fn key and f4 so it works as if you just pressed f4. If I simply press f4, the screen brightness reduces. Very inconvenient!
<p><pre><code> Just find a way to run `synclient MaxTapTime=0` when your X session starts up, and you should be golden. This just disables tapping the trackpad to click, similar to how a MacBook’s trackpad behaves.
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I want his babies for this - I have just "lived with it" on every laptop for years simply because I was too lazy to dig into the hell of X and drivers and docs. But now I see the light
> Unity is horribly inefficient with screen space<p>WUT? Unity needs LESS screen space then AWESOME WM or something similar because of it's global menu. Look! <a href="http://screencloud.net/v/zB84" rel="nofollow">http://screencloud.net/v/zB84</a> How much more vertical space would you have in awesome?<p>And, as someone mentioned, left panel can be hidden, but I prefer to use it.
"Did you just get used to OS X Lion’s inverse scrolling? Me, too! "<p>I initially thought the author was being sarcastic, but the next few lines suggest he was serious. There's a really easy way to change the OSX setting (and I do this on every mac I use):<p>System Preferences -> Mouse -> Scroll & Zoom -> uncheck "Scroll direction"
Dell has gone on and off with their Linux support during previous releases. But, I am not particularly concerned because in the Linux community, if there are drivers for your hardware today, they will likely exist forever. As for Unity, I can't agree anymore with your observation that it requires many mouse clicks to get something done. Compared to OSX and even to Windows, Unity has wasted tons of screen estate and made it much harder to get things done. GNOME2 is definitely legendary especially because of it's simplicity and versatility.
Unity is inefficient with screen space - does he mean this serious?<p>And Unity is totally optimized for keyboard usage, the whole Dash concept is based on keyboard usage.<p>I liked the idea for the trackpad, reducing the clicking time to 0.
summary:<p>paragraph 1, i don't like gnome3/unity<p>paragraph 2-n, how to change settings, in the worst way, so it behaves like a mac<p>only thing I agree is the trigger to gnome-settings-daemon. that is really trick.