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That's a shame. I prefer the current Unity (16.10) interface to the other available options. It's simple, clean and intuitive IMO. Haven't looked at Gnome sinc

That's a shame. I prefer the current Unity (16.10) interface to the other available options. It's simple, clean and intuitive IMO. Haven't looked at Gnome since the disaster that was 3, having previously used it exclusively. Here's hoping it has improved (dramatically) since. Unity is lightyears ahead of where Gnome was last time I checked.

DoofusOfDeath 10y ago
Perhaps volunteers will maintain Unity well-enough that it at least keeps working on future Ubuntu releases.
- mamon 10y ago
  When did that ever happened for open source project? OSS with just the volunteers and without a big sponsor behind it usually degenerates quickly.
  - simplicio 10y ago
    MATE is a volunteer supported for of Gnome 2, isn't it? I haven't used it lately, but it still seems to be going strong after 6+ years. I imagine if there's enough interest, the same could be done with Unity.
    - tgragnato 10y ago
      > I haven't used it lately, but it still seems to be going strong after 6+ years. https://github.com/mate-desktop https://github.com/mate-desktop Look at the commit graphs.. Their effort is super!
phkahler 10y ago
I'm hoping some outsiders (outside redhat/fedora/gnome) will have enough influence to stop some of the dumb things going on with gnome. This could be good for everyone ;-)
- simion314 10y ago
  If that would be possible we would not have MATE or people/projects droping GTK for Qt, Gnome has a vision and it will follow it, and a big chunk of people like it for some reason.
bwat49 9y ago
If you've been using unity, you've already been using most of the gnome stack, the main difference being a different shell and window manager on top. I do slightly prefer unity to gnome (mainly because, in my experience, unity/compiz is has far smoother performance/animations than gnome shell), but gnome is pretty good these days. Also, it's worth mentioning that the first release of unity was every bit as much of a disaster as gnome 3 was (I remember unity in 11.04, it was buggy and the performance was horrific)

DoofusOfDeath 10y ago

Perhaps volunteers will maintain Unity well-enough that it at least keeps working on future Ubuntu releases.

mamon 10y ago
When did that ever happened for open source project? OSS with just the volunteers and without a big sponsor behind it usually degenerates quickly.
- simplicio 10y ago
  MATE is a volunteer supported for of Gnome 2, isn't it? I haven't used it lately, but it still seems to be going strong after 6+ years. I imagine if there's enough interest, the same could be done with Unity.
  - tgragnato 10y ago
    > I haven't used it lately, but it still seems to be going strong after 6+ years. https://github.com/mate-desktop https://github.com/mate-desktop Look at the commit graphs.. Their effort is super!

phkahler 10y ago

I'm hoping some outsiders (outside redhat/fedora/gnome) will have enough influence to stop some of the dumb things going on with gnome. This could be good for everyone ;-)

simion314 10y ago
If that would be possible we would not have MATE or people/projects droping GTK for Qt, Gnome has a vision and it will follow it, and a big chunk of people like it for some reason.

bwat49 9y ago

If you've been using unity, you've already been using most of the gnome stack, the main difference being a different shell and window manager on top. I do slightly prefer unity to gnome (mainly because, in my experience, unity/compiz is has far smoother performance/animations than gnome shell), but gnome is pretty good these days. Also, it's worth mentioning that the first release of unity was every bit as much of a disaster as gnome 3 was (I remember unity in 11.04, it was buggy and the performance was horrific)