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I wouldn't recommend Ubuntu to anyone after the Unity debacle. The way that they insisted on ramming certain "design decisions" down people's throats demonstrat
by tjpnz 10y ago
I wouldn't recommend Ubuntu to anyone after the Unity debacle. The way that they insisted on ramming certain "design decisions" down people's throats demonstrated quite clearly that certain elements of the project decided that user feedback meant squat. I remember talking to someone involved with Unity and asking him why I couldn't move the launcher to the bottom of the screen. The answer I got was that it was a design decision that people would just have to accept. He followed up by saying I would get used to it - despite having already put up with it for 2+ years. Attitudes like this are why I and many others will never trust Ubuntu again.
- pkd 10y agoUnless you are using vertical monitors, it makes sense to preserve the more premium vertical screen space by not placing the launcher there. Anyway you can move it to the bottom now since 16.04. Ubuntu offers a lot of niceties, and the DE is definitely not a deal breaker since you can install GNOME/MATE/KDE with a couple of terminal commands anyway.
- owaislone 10y agoYou can move it to bottom now BTW.
- tjpnz 10y agoYou absolutely can but for the longest time you couldn't - not at least in a way that wouldn't break between versions. The wider issue here though is the attitude. If someone from the Unity team had explained why it couldn't be done for a technical reason I think many people would understand that. But to be told it was by design and that I should learn to live with it is exactly the kind of arrogance we could all live without in the Linux/FOSS community.