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Since Canonical receives a huge backlash whenever "Mir" or "Unity" are mentioned, I wanted to tell you that Unity was absolutely fantastic as a desktop. I have
by pkd 10y ago
Since Canonical receives a huge backlash whenever "Mir" or "Unity" are mentioned, I wanted to tell you that Unity was absolutely fantastic as a desktop. I have tried and used many platforms and in many ways (except only hi-dpi support) Unity was the best desktop on the market across all operating systems.
I also hope that you and Mark and the rest of the team understand that the constant hate was by a vocal minority rather than the majority. Most people were happy with Unity because it just worked and could be extremely powerful at the same time.
And I don't know if you've heard this enough, so thank you for creating such a great piece of software that made Linux on the desktop accessible to hundreds of thousands of people.
- keithpeter 10y agoI gather from the original statement by Mark Shuttleworth that the decision to cancel further development of Unity version 8 was a business decision based on not continuing development of the phone/mobile converged UI. I suspect (and hope) that Canonical just ignored the 'vocal minority' and carried on! Otherwise no-one would ever try anything new. I'm just wondering slightly how much of a Chandler the Unity 8 project was... https://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/vale-unity/amp/ https://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/vale-unity/amp/