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I use Ubuntu on my computers only because I can avoid the Unity insanity and just switch to a standard Gnome 3 experience. Gnome 3 is not Gnome 2 but still is m
by tacone 11y ago
I use Ubuntu on my computers only because I can avoid the Unity insanity and just switch to a standard Gnome 3 experience. Gnome 3 is not Gnome 2 but still is more beareable than Unity.
The problem with Canonical is they have some kind of Steve Jobs syndrome: when they think they are right, they just disregard any feedback as change-resisting, perhaps just to follow the suggestion 3-4 years later.
It goes from NotifyOSD to the Unity Lenses, to the software updates pop-unders, to whoopsie, etc. You can see the pattern, innovating for the sake of change, when no change was needed. Whas it worth? What do they sell, the desktops? No, they sell server support.
Looking back, there has never been ever any gain for them coming from a contested new feature. Every time the community protested against something, it turned out to be a bad feature, or at least, something that provided no measurable gain or wide-acceptation.
They should perhaps listen a little bit more.
- arjie 11y agoThe Linux community is like an atom. All the heavy stuff is in a small core of contributors, and the rest is a fuzzy shell flying around screaming into the aether. And there are lots of distros that are fully community driven, and they didn't get us Steam or pre-installed Linux computers, or whatever else. It's valuable to have one that is stubborn, and it's valuable for that stubborn one to be big enough that it can survive its stubbornness. The community, after all, pushed back on 3D-acceleration-by-default, on a store, on systemd, on pulseaudio, even on what-was-once-called-jockey.