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Interesting. At the time I looked at Gnome Shell. I do not recall the details but I retreated to Mate (? was that the name of the Linux Mint desktop?) that ha
by worik 6y ago
Interesting. At the time I looked at Gnome Shell. I do not recall the details but I retreated to Mate (? was that the name of the Linux Mint desktop?) that had the old style.
I thought I decided I wanted the comfort of the familiar. Over time it won me over. Which was my point.
Canonical at the time were so arrogant that they did not try to win me over, they dumped me in it
- necovek 6y agoExactly, you retreated to Mate that shipped with Gnome 2 because Gnome 3 sucked too :) However, Gnome 2 was all but abandoned at the time, and it did not make sense for Canonical to commit to supporting it for the next 5 years with their LTS release without the help of the upstream. All the big distributions were "forced" to switch to an unfamiliar interface. Fedora did too with Gnome Shell. Ubuntu at least had derivatives like Mate or Kubuntu that you could easily move to with an apt-get install.
- worik 6y agoBut they could have had a transition. They did not. Users == Lusers thinking.
- necovek 6y agoYou seem to overestimate the resources Canonical had on Ubuntu, and especially on Ubuntu Desktop. But you seem to have been already decided that they did it because they are mean, so I don't think it makes sense to continue the discussion.