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The reason I originally switched from Gentoo to Ubuntu several years ago is that Gentoo kept deferring from marking things stable. At one point it had been alm
by rogerbinns 14y ago
The reason I originally switched from Gentoo to Ubuntu several years ago is that Gentoo kept deferring from marking things stable. At one point it had been almost 10 months since a Gnome release and it still wasn't marked stable. This was during a time of great transitions like Network Manager - something that was desperately needed. You could of course go in and say it was okay to install the unstable versions of various packages but my list just kept getting longer and longer. Rolling distributions change the big milestones from everything to smaller pieces but they will still be a problem such as when new Gnome/GCC etc releases come out that interact with a lot of other packages.
My main problem with Ubuntu/Canonical is that they seem to prefer going their own way instead of trying to collaborate. Unity could be done as a Gnome Shell extension. Replace upstart with systemd. Do something about the bugs.
- jebblue 14y agoI'm not sure rolling releases makes sense but either removing Unity or making it as configurable as Gnome 2 was would be a huge step back in the right direction.
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- notatoad 14y agoUnity could be done as a gnome shell extension now (and it would probably be better if it were done that way) but when development started there was no gnome shell - compiz was the go-to solution if you wanted a compositing window manager, and unity is a compiz plugin. if anybody was doing things their own way instead of collaborating, it's the gnome folks. It just so happened that gnome's solution turned out better. Similar situation with upstart vs systemd - when they introduced upstart, systemd was either brand new or nonexistent (can't remember exactly) and for quite a while, it looked as though upstart would be the solution to replace the old init.