I personally don't know about dee., but some guys out there have been clearly committed in Ubuntu fanaticism, up to the point of no return. This said, I've got to admit that Ubuntu has put some recognizable efforts in creating a genuine user experience, even if I can't stand Unity for more than two minutes in a row.
What fuels the hate -- and I can personally state that I'm quite hating this distribution right now -- is more on the FOSS/technical side of things, in other words, the way they are actually dividing the whole community for the sake of unified desktop/laptop/netbook/ultrabook/tablet/phone/whatever experience. This is not a bad idea, nor is it a wrong decision by any means, but if that's the case, just make the entire community benefit from it. If they had chosen to back Wayland with financial and human support for the purpose of their design, that would have proven useful for anyone out there, in addition to having interesting commits and quicker, more efficient development -- not to mention the potential impact on nVidia and AMD to start supporting Wayland (or start being more involved in Open Source drivers, who knows...).
Also with the utter failure of Ubuntu Phone and Ubuntu Edge, I can't see the point in developing Mir any more, so that the whole time and effort put in it is just lost. Having been committed in Wayland would have brought a very different conclusion to this. What is interesting in this respect is that most blueprints show a deeper interest in cloud computing than in Mir or Ubuntu Phones. Is the effort entirely wasted yet ?
What fuels the hate -- and I can personally state that I'm quite hating this distribution right now -- is more on the FOSS/technical side of things, in other words, the way they are actually dividing the whole community for the sake of unified desktop/laptop/netbook/ultrabook/tablet/phone/whatever experience. This is not a bad idea, nor is it a wrong decision by any means, but if that's the case, just make the entire community benefit from it. If they had chosen to back Wayland with financial and human support for the purpose of their design, that would have proven useful for anyone out there, in addition to having interesting commits and quicker, more efficient development -- not to mention the potential impact on nVidia and AMD to start supporting Wayland (or start being more involved in Open Source drivers, who knows...).
Also with the utter failure of Ubuntu Phone and Ubuntu Edge, I can't see the point in developing Mir any more, so that the whole time and effort put in it is just lost. Having been committed in Wayland would have brought a very different conclusion to this. What is interesting in this respect is that most blueprints show a deeper interest in cloud computing than in Mir or Ubuntu Phones. Is the effort entirely wasted yet ?
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