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I'm still shellshocked that Canonical has dropped Unity. Years of development jettisoned overnight.
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@igor I was using it occasionally at work last year, but the MATE version. Ubuntu is still a pretty good option for the average user, but in my case I wanted to move to fully free distros.
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@sulman The main thing I like about GNU/Linux is that I don't really have to accept anything. I can uninstall or replace things I don't want or need.
systemd I don't mind. From a user point of view I find it easier to deal with and simpler to make daemons. There's far less boilerplate than the older init system. Looking at the code it's not all that monolithic either.
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@bob they were using it for the phones too, so now is u-phone dead or are they going to switch it to gnome?
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@ghostdancer alas, I expect that the u-phone will be dead unless the wider community continues it.
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@bob the main reason for unity was to have a common "face" for all devices and under their control not like kde/gnome/xfce/...
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@ghostdancer evidently they've abandoned the convergence strategy in favour of trying to become RedHat.
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@spiderrobotpig it is sad for the folks who liked Unity and had been using it for the last five years
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@hfaust @bob i don't think they can, easily, RedHat is well known industry wise and Ubuntu has not the best of the images in that area.
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