<OT> Re: Explain to me again why Unity is so great...

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sun May 1 18:20:09 UTC 2011


On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 21:39 +1000, Ben Darby wrote: 
> * Jordon Bedwell (jordon at envygeeks.com) wrote:
> > On 5/1/2011 5:48 AM, Nick Edwards wrote:
> > > Look at how fast slackware lost a LARGE proportion of its desktop users
> > > when they dropped Gnome some 7 or 8 years ago, I know a lot of slackware
> > > server users, but I can think of only one single slackware desktop user
> > > in my contact list, it works great, detects all netbook stuff and what
> > > have you, but KDE sucks big time, its almost as bloatware as XP :P
> > > 
> > > I triple boot XP pro, OpensuSe and Ubuntu, if Ubuntu drop Gnome, l then
> > > it gets simpler, I'll only boot XP and OpenSuSe.
> > 
> > Ubuntu hasn't and never will drop GNOME.  Unity is a shell for GNOME.
> 
> How can you be so sure that Ubuntu will never decide to, for whatever
> reason explained or not, drop GNOME? They've had no issues with chopping
> and changing default applications, stated they are moving away from X.
> You can't take anything for granted, Ubuntu might decide they are moving
> in different directions and develop their own solution.

I'd doubt that they would make a sudden push for KDE, as Kubuntu has
been the red-headed stepchild for a very long time. So, that doesn't
leave much, unless we wind up with a Google dashboard. Just like the
50's, we'd get Campbell's Soup coupon offers with our mail. <shudders>
Ric


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