Comment 191 for bug 527458

I have read more comments and other views and have come to the conclusion that Ubuntu may not be for me.
On the plus side the installation experience was fantastic, the initial impression from the way it looked was good.
On the minus side an update of the system froze the GUI and required a hard power cycle, and it seems that the default desktop GUI is too functionality-stripped to suit my taste. Getting rid of Unity didn't improve things much as the old style menus looked tired and developmentally orphaned. Unity would be nice if it wasn't so dumbed down (presumably for touch screen usage) and unconfigurable. Unfortunately Windows 7 (and even Vista) are more appealing and feel less straight-jacket like. I know I can hack Linux to anything, but most users can't -and the maintenance trouble of a totally personalised system is not something I wish to handle. I never liked the space wasting "global menu bar" (macintosh style) feature, and can't seem to get rid of it at all nowdays in Ubuntu. Window buttons on the left is a mac thing, and seems to screw up most existing themes. Weren't they always on the right on Linux systems? I use a Mac (mini) and an iPhone, and can just say that the Mac GUI is nice, but cannot be half-implemented. You either have it fully implemented, or it's no good. And not even Apple tries to make the touch screen interface the same as the real computer version. Linux has come a long way since the early days, but dumbing down the GUI universally cannot be the way forward, surely?