I've installed, used and or played with every MS OS from ME to 8 and every Ubuntu version from 10.4 to 12.10. I began with Amiga of some version. The Amiga was the best IMHO. I could write programs in Amiga Basic which was terrific. Deleting a file simply involved moving it's icon into the trash. Even partitioning the HDD was simple. ME was the worst. It crashed everytime I tried to 'clean up' the HD until someone told me about their update center and that I needed an update to fix that problem. MS was just so much work to install. All the security software that had to be installed, all the settings to change, the updates. IMO that has just gotten worse with every new MS OS. Just opening IE or MSMedia was a chore with all the questions that had to be answered before I could even use those programs. So then I had to search and install more user friendly programs like VLC and Firefox just adding to the hours of work to set up an MS system. Get a virus? have to do it all over again. Not mention the hours spent cleaning the computer and updating all the security software weekly.
I went Ubuntu and it was great. As with MS I can no longer write programs with a superbly documented Basic language but it did what I wanted without all the work. I surf the net, use productivity (office, making DVDs or CDs) software from time to time, play a couple games, watch movies on my TV through the software and hardware on my PC.
I don't hate Unity but it is a throwback to times when OSs required a lot of work to use and setup. As the tester in the video pointed out 'why hide things that you use?' for example. Searching for LIbre office to write a document is just classic. How can you search for things that you don't know the name of? Obviously selecting a drop down menu with programs clearly labelled, organized and pictured is much more intuitive.
I can sit back in a chair in my family room with my wireless mouse and keyboard and select a movie to watch on my 42" TV while playing a game on my monitor screen. But not any more. Ubuntu lost the capability to use two monitors with their own resolutions at 11.04. So after much searching I found Mint Mate 13 which still has that option.
MS 8 and Ubuntu 12.04 have more in common than they differ. Both take a lot of work to set up and use. It is very difficult and unintuitive to find programs. Neither allow the user to operate two monitors at their own resolutions. The TV can be the monitor. This is not moving into the future. This is sacrificing friendliness for trendiness. Today I watched a hockey game over the net on my big TV while surfing and taking part in a message board about the game on my PC monitor. Is that the future now because it was the past for over 10 years.
I enjoyed your video. I had never seen Ubuntu 4 before but yeah the user friendliness and intuitiveness is so clearly presented along with some wonderfully logical observations by the tester. Nicely done. Well underlined of course by the impossibility of pushing those little buttons with fingers. Imagine a work station or desk with piles of documents between the user and the monitor or just the distance between my 42" TV and me on my chair. Looks like someone is going to have to re-invent the remote control. This time for PCs with supposedly futuristic OSs. Touch screen for PCs is not the future. It is a MacDonalds cash register. The past. Try again.