Shock announcement

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

Funny.  I seem to recall Unity coming out in 10.10 or so.  You know -- 
five years or so *after* Ubuntu had made itself a "reconisable brand."  
If you're so wed to a single UI that it defines your entire experience, 
well, I think you're overly dependent on what the UI means.  As for what 
Ubuntu means to me:

* Ease-of-setup
* Not getting lost in the "free/libre" weeds and politics
* Frequent releases
* Lots of easy hardware support
* Long-term support for releases (VASTLY longer than Debian's)
* Actual corporate backing which helps with bringing into companies
* Support for *multiple* UIs: GNOME, MATE, KDE, and, yeah, Unity.

At the end of the day, Ubuntu is way more than a single UI.  And for 
that matter, I doubt that Unity will be thrown in the trash; it will 
simply lose its place as the primary target.  I would not be surprised 
at all if it continues to have extra-Canonical support.

$.02

-Ken


On 2017-04-06 04:10, Xen wrote:
> Liam Proven schreef op 05-04-2017 22:49:
>> OK, not a tech query, but important Ubuntu news from the SABDFL
>> 
>> https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/
>> 
>> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/ubuntu-unity-is-dead-desktop-will-switch-back-to-gnome-next-year/
> 
> I used to be able to ask people if they knew what Ubuntu was and if
> they didn't know, I could show them, ie. I would show Unity.
> 
> This basically means that Ubuntu will stop being a recognisable brand.