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There's something very HN about the fact that the author of one of the most discussed posts in the site's history can issue a follow up post, dealing with that

There's something very HN about the fact that the author of one of the most discussed posts in the site's history can issue a follow up post, dealing with that discussion, to such little notice.

cbhl 10y ago
It was very interesting to see the summary view of the comments, but frankly, the real follow-up was the announcement that Ubuntu is moving back to GNOME in 18.04: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14043631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14043631 That action was, IMHO, one of the biggest thank yous they could have given us.
- adelarsq 10y ago
  I agree. I did stop using Ubuntu when Unity was introduced. May be time to be back
  - reitanqild 10y ago
    Same here. Was a huge fan before. Disliked Unity so much. Seems some people honestly like the look of it, how it works etc. I however strongly dislike DEs that: 1. messing with alt-tab 2. mess with menus (I liked the idea but found the implementation to be painful)
    - slitaz 10y ago
      This dislike should be mostly psychological. There are people that got primed to dislike Unity and when they attempted to use it, they struggled because of the 'old dog learning new tricks'. We saw this with the intro of Gnome Shell, which fractured the community between the old Gnome UI and new UI. If we continue to split up when something new is introduced, we are doing it wrong.
      - reitanqild 10y ago
        I am not against new. I'm almost embarrassingly simple to get enthusiastic about new tech. The things I mention however are things I have found to be actual problems in my workflow. They obviously work well for others and I respect that. I hope others can respect my observation that with Mac/Unity alt-tab more keystrokes or waiting might be necessary. It is also an objective observation that with Mac style shared menu on top of the screen in a dual monitor setup you will sometimes have to move the pointer across two screens to reach the menu, then back again to continie working.
        braveo 10y ago
        To this day I still get frustrated on Windows because they broke Alt+Tab. Used to Alt+tab would simply cycle through in order of most recently used. Now they've got some functionality where shit can inject itself into that list so alt+tab and then alt+tab back and then alt+tab back to bounce between two different programs doesn't work consistently anymore. I'm sure I just don't understand the use case for the new behavior, but it drives me bonkers. I also hate, and I mean HAAAAAAATE when text editors autocomplete matching brackets, single/double quotes, etc. It completely fucks with my flow. so maybe I'm just an old control freak.
saghm 10y ago
Obviously this wasn't the case when you commented, but this is now on the front page (ranked sixth). I guess people noticed after all!

There's something very HN about the fact that the author of one of the most discussed posts in the site's history can issue a follow up post, dealing with that discussion, to such little notice.

cbhl 10y ago

It was very interesting to see the summary view of the comments, but frankly, the real follow-up was the announcement that Ubuntu is moving back to GNOME in 18.04: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14043631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14043631 That action was, IMHO, one of the biggest thank yous they could have given us.

adelarsq 10y ago
I agree. I did stop using Ubuntu when Unity was introduced. May be time to be back
- reitanqild 10y ago
  Same here. Was a huge fan before. Disliked Unity so much. Seems some people honestly like the look of it, how it works etc. I however strongly dislike DEs that: 1. messing with alt-tab 2. mess with menus (I liked the idea but found the implementation to be painful)
  - slitaz 10y ago
    This dislike should be mostly psychological. There are people that got primed to dislike Unity and when they attempted to use it, they struggled because of the 'old dog learning new tricks'. We saw this with the intro of Gnome Shell, which fractured the community between the old Gnome UI and new UI. If we continue to split up when something new is introduced, we are doing it wrong.
    - reitanqild 10y ago
      I am not against new. I'm almost embarrassingly simple to get enthusiastic about new tech. The things I mention however are things I have found to be actual problems in my workflow. They obviously work well for others and I respect that. I hope others can respect my observation that with Mac/Unity alt-tab more keystrokes or waiting might be necessary. It is also an objective observation that with Mac style shared menu on top of the screen in a dual monitor setup you will sometimes have to move the pointer across two screens to reach the menu, then back again to continie working.
      - braveo 10y ago
        To this day I still get frustrated on Windows because they broke Alt+Tab. Used to Alt+tab would simply cycle through in order of most recently used. Now they've got some functionality where shit can inject itself into that list so alt+tab and then alt+tab back and then alt+tab back to bounce between two different programs doesn't work consistently anymore. I'm sure I just don't understand the use case for the new behavior, but it drives me bonkers. I also hate, and I mean HAAAAAAATE when text editors autocomplete matching brackets, single/double quotes, etc. It completely fucks with my flow. so maybe I'm just an old control freak.

saghm 10y ago

Obviously this wasn't the case when you commented, but this is now on the front page (ranked sixth). I guess people noticed after all!