Yuan Meng: Ubuntu new desktop Unity controversial

In the recent period, on the international Linux Forum, Ubuntu's new desktop Unity encountered serious controversy or doubts, which made people feel a little uneasy. What is the cause of this controversy? Recently, in the world's Linux release rankings, the LinuxMint release crossed Ubuntu in one fell swoop, thus occupying the first place to be the best. In this case, someone came up to blame Ubuntu for the new desktop Unity. This criticism is unfair. Why? Let's take a look at what Ubuntu's new desktop Unity is,

In the recent period, on the international Linux Forum, Ubuntu's new desktop Unity encountered serious controversy or doubts, which made people feel a little uneasy. What is the cause of this controversy?

Recently, in the world's Linux release rankings, the Linux Mint release crossed the Ubuntu, thus occupying the first place to be "in the chair. In this case, someone came up to blame Ubuntu for the new desktop Unity. This criticism is unfair. Why? Let's take a look at what Ubuntu's new desktop Unity is. Is the homepage of Unity.ubuntu.com:

From this figure, we can see that the purpose of Unity technology is to bring simplicity, strength, and integration to developers of users and applications. On the other hand, unity puts desktop design, integration, and free software at the core of providing powerful and attractive user experiences ". Start to explore Unity from Ubuntu10.10. After version 11.04, Unity desktop has achieved initial success in Ubuntu11.10. At this year's Ubuntu developer summit, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, said that it will gradually improve the Unity desktop within the next two years, PROMOTE Unity desktop to large, medium, and small computer screens. Therefore, we should have full confidence in the future of Unity desktop. To be honest, Unity desktop innovation is a very difficult and arduous risk undertaking. If it is difficult to achieve it, it is necessary to overturn the ship.

We know that the world's Linux release rankings are ranked based on the daily hits (h.p.d, which is updated every day) "average value obtained in the previous 30 days. The obvious fact is that the more new versions are released, the more eye-catching opportunities there will naturally be. The average daily hits of h.p.d will be higher. For example, LinuxMint Released six different versions this year:

1. 2011-11-12: Development Release: Linux Mint12 RC

2. 2011-09-16: Distribution Releases: LinuxMint 201109 "Debian GNOME", "Debian Xfce"

3. 2011-08-16: Distribution Release: LinuxMint 11 "LXDE"

4. 2011-05-26: Distribution Release: LinuxMint 11

5. 2011-05-09: Development Release: Linux Mint11 RC

6. 2011-04-06: Distribution Release: LinuxMint 201104 "Xfce"

It is not hard to see that in the three months of 8, 9, and 11, LinuxMint has different new versions released, and the total number of clicks per day is counted on one version of LinuxMint, it is natural to surpass Ubuntu at a time. If the daily clicks of the Ubuntu family (such as Kubuntu, Lubuntu, and so on) are counted on the head of one Ubuntu version, the insurance of the Ubuntu release version is "absolutely the first ".