i hope you will be promoting ![Wink ;)](https://www.diasfora.co.uk/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
am giving up on Ubuntu Unity.
not that the desktop nor applications were hard / rubbish but
it was such a long time to boot up.
laptop on .
5 secs of bios
25 seconds of black screen ( and that was a short timing )
password login
30 seconds of Ubuntu wallpaper
15 seconds of awaiting desktop to start.
hooray were off at last.
it seemed like a eternity waiting.
so now i'm playing with a little number called Zorin o/s based on Ubuntu
boots up in about 15 secs and runs everything out of the box ![Grin ;D](https://www.diasfora.co.uk/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
ARGH! Funny you should mention the new Unity UI, everybody in the linux community seems to HATE the new directions being taken with gnome, KDE, etc, and now with Ubuntu's drastic "dummed down" interface, everybody seems ready to switch over to Mac OS X! What gives? In all honesty, I'd rather have Unity over Windows 8's new look any day, at least with Unity, the "dummed down" aspect of it isn't so in your face as with Windows 8's new tablet orientated direction.
Personally, I'm anxious to fiddle around with Unity as it does look like things are shifting drastically and Linux is finally trying to appeal to users who haven't been coding straight out of the crib with 4 or C++ and Python books under their belt. And anyway, it's not that different from what Ubuntu was before, things have just been simplified or moved around for "better productivity purposes" which although subjective, I tend to agree with. I thing change is good, plus Ubuntu looks so purty now.
![Tongue :P](https://www.diasfora.co.uk/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
As soon as I get a decent build up and running I'm going to give Ubuntu another shot and fiddle around with it once again.
@Goldshirt, were you running it on a laptop? What were your specs? Unity is more demanding than the now dubbed "classic theme", which coincidentally, is why they decided to leave that classic boot as an option until 11.10 is officially out and about.