Another Veteran Ubuntu Member Is Leaving Canonical

[starshipeleven]

Personally i think Ubuntu will be better off folding as a Distro , its plain obvious that Ubuntu just isnt the Distro it once was anymore

I agree on the first sentence, but I'd like to note that Ubuntu has always been like this afaik.

[amp3030]

Personally i think Ubuntu will be better off folding as a Distro , its plain obvious that Ubuntu just isnt the Distro it once was anymore

Ubuntu is Ubuntu because it has always pushed the boundaries of user-friendliness, and invested in things that it thought were forgotten (and of course it has done so in its own ways that might not suit many people). What good will it do if it becomes yet another pure distro? There are so many of them out there.

[Anvil]

Ubuntu is Ubuntu because it has always pushed the boundaries of user-friendliness, and invested in things that it thought were forgotten (and of course it has done so in its own ways that might not suit many people). What good will it do if it becomes yet another pure distro? There are so many of them out there.

from my recollection, not many Ubuntu users like Unity for starters. just go an ask Matthew Garrett on how unfree Ubuntu actually is, i last used Ubuntu on 8.04 ,

[slacka]

from my recollection, not many Ubuntu users like Unity ,

In my shop, most of the Linux desktops run Ubuntu. I'm fairly confident, it's precisely because they like Unity. Ubuntu's sane defaults like good looking fonts, and installer and drivers that handles most hardware configs/dual boot configs I'm sure don't hurt. I just tried Fedora 25 and I found gnome 3 default UX to still suck. Sure you can fix it up with extensions like Dash-to-Dock, but even after some tweaking I'll take KDE or Unity any day. For example, it's nearly 2017 and Gnome still shows text names of windows instead of thumbnails? KDE and Unity have support moved to thumbnails years ago.

[jacob]

from my recollection, not many Ubuntu users like Unity for starters. just go an ask Matthew Garrett on how unfree Ubuntu actually is, i last used Ubuntu on 8.04 ,

The main reason I'm using Ubuntu is precisely Unity. IMHO it's hands down the best desktop UI available at the moment, and not just on Linux. It's far from perfect, obviously, but all the alternatives - whether it's Windows 10, OSX or every single other Linux-based desktop - suck big time in comparison.

Snap is also coming along nicely, so Ubuntu with all its faults is still a pretty damn good distro. Canonical, well... that's another story.

[Geopirate]

I think most people who don't understand Ubuntu's continued popularity just don't understand regular desktop users. Most people do not want to drop to a command line for basic tasks. This has been the case for 20 years but most people in the Linux community simply don't get it.

[Delgarde]

For example, it's
nearly 2017 and Gnome still shows text names of windows instead of thumbnails? KDE and Unity have support moved to thumbnails years ago.

Not sure why you're complaining about what Gnome does, when linking to a bug-report about a third-party extension?

[Anvil]

In my shop, most of the Linux desktops run Ubuntu. I'm fairly confident, it's precisely because they like Unity. Ubuntu's sane defaults like good looking fonts, and installer and drivers that handles most hardware configs/dual boot configs I'm sure don't hurt. I just tried Fedora 25 and I gnome 3 default UX still sucks. Sure you can fix it up with extensions like Dash-to-Dock, but even after some tweaking I'll take KDE or Unity any day. For example, it's
nearly 2017 and Gnome still shows text names of windows instead of thumbnails? KDE and Unity have support moved to thumbnails years ago.

Microsoft Windows had Thumbnail support before Linux DE's had it. does Unity have any Extensions like Gnome has? my guess no. so your stuck with the same old looking Unity on ur desktop all the time with each release.

[bregma]

Seems like every November there's a wave of people moving jobs, maybe something about the gloomy short days in the Northern hemisphere. I've been working professionally in the software field for over 30 years, and I've seen it happen every year. I would put no more stock into Martin Pitt and Daniel Holbach leaving Canonical than just that. The fact that they both dedicated so much time at Canonical when the average in the field is between 2 and 5 years is a sign it is a highly desirable place to work. They'll be truly missed, but a person is not just a career and that's the final consideration. I wish them the best of luck and thank them for their contributions.

[pal666]

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