After a couple of days with Ubuntu and the Unity desktop, I have another couple of comments.

First of all, I don’t like the global menu bar. I really don’t like it. It takes up space for no good reason – the clock, etc don’t require it, not really, and if you turn off global menus, which I did, it is mostly empty.

Second, I hate the “Amazon Lens”. It’s not that I don’t shop on Amazon – I do, all the time – but I want to choose when to interact with Amazon (or other commercial providers) without my desktop interfering. So I’ve turned that off, too.

I also don’t like how newly opened windows are placed on the desktop. It’s probably configurable using some of the tweak tools that are available, but I can’t be bothered to look it up.

This morning, I switched back to KDE and the more traditional desktop metaphor, and immediately realised that it’s rather boring, too. It’s nice, with all kinds of extras and eye candy and stuff, but it’s boring and it should be possible for someone to come up with a more modern Linux desktop.

It’s just that Unity isn’t the answer.