Shock announcement

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2017-04-06 18:51 GMT+02:00 Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net>:

>
> On 04/06/2017 12:06 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
>
>> Funny.  I seem to recall Unity coming out in 10.10 or so.
>
>
”Or so” is correct. Ubuntu 10.10 was Gnome 2, Ubuntu 11.04 was Unity. I
kept Ubuntu 10.10 as long as possible, I think I waited until Ubuntu 12.04
before i upgraded. Since Ubuntu 10.10, they removed almost every nice
feature that I used commonly, forcing me into awkward workarounds, some of
them didn't even work… Seriously, I suspect they spied on me. It was like
”ok, how do Johnny Rosenberg use Ubuntu? Aha… he use those features. Let's
remove one of them and see what happens… And when I still didn't switch to
another distribution, they removed another one and so on.



Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg



> 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
>>
> Perhaps Ken is right about the UI remaining available. However, for me, I
> am wedded to a particular UI, and if it became unavailable with a
> particular OS, I would look for another OS
> where it was still available. For me, that UI is KDE (Kubuntu). Other OS's
> have KDE.
> --doug
>
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