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This release tells me that Ubuntu has completely given up on being a desktop Linux distribution. There's mention of only one thing: containers. Containers, cont

by pc2g4d 10y ago

This release tells me that Ubuntu has completely given up on being a desktop Linux distribution. There's mention of only one thing: containers. Containers, containers, containers. No shell improvements, no application improvements, nothing else. So... I guess I'm glad I've moved over to Fedora.

bwat49 10y ago
Unity is being dropped and unity 7 had already been in maintenance mode for a long time, so it's not surprising there's no unity changes here.
cr0sh 10y ago
Who says you can't use containers on the desktop? https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desktop/ https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desk... She gives some good reasons why it can be a good thing; it sounds interesting - I've thought of trying it myself, and might with a new future system. It's downsides (though this may have changed since I last saw this and looked into it) would be difficulty setting it up, and that some applications might need some tweaking to get them to play nice (?). It still seems like something fun to play around with. Container'd (?) apps would make for an easier system to admin overall, I think. Oh - yeah, SNAPS are kinda a refining of the idea of running individual apps in their own containers, from what I understand (plus making it easier to package apps so that they will run anywhere properly - at least, that's the way I understand it; I haven't done a lot of research on it). Anyhow - I was a bit confused by this release, too - it does seem server focused, but the mention of SNAPS makes me wonder if they aren't trying to move in that direction, that is, a more unified system that isn't differentiated between desktop or server (or whatever), and is just a container ecosystem of apps for whatever you want to use the system for?

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This release tells me that Ubuntu has completely given up on being a desktop Linux distribution. There's mention of only one thing: containers. Containers, cont

by pc2g4d 10y ago

bwat49 10y ago
Unity is being dropped and unity 7 had already been in maintenance mode for a long time, so it's not surprising there's no unity changes here.
cr0sh 10y ago
Who says you can't use containers on the desktop? https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desktop/ https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desk... She gives some good reasons why it can be a good thing; it sounds interesting - I've thought of trying it myself, and might with a new future system. It's downsides (though this may have changed since I last saw this and looked into it) would be difficulty setting it up, and that some applications might need some tweaking to get them to play nice (?). It still seems like something fun to play around with. Container'd (?) apps would make for an easier system to admin overall, I think. Oh - yeah, SNAPS are kinda a refining of the idea of running individual apps in their own containers, from what I understand (plus making it easier to package apps so that they will run anywhere properly - at least, that's the way I understand it; I haven't done a lot of research on it). Anyhow - I was a bit confused by this release, too - it does seem server focused, but the mention of SNAPS makes me wonder if they aren't trying to move in that direction, that is, a more unified system that isn't differentiated between desktop or server (or whatever), and is just a container ecosystem of apps for whatever you want to use the system for?