Another Veteran Ubuntu Member Is Leaving Canonical

[pal666]

MS steps in and "buys" Canonical

how mark shuttleworth could but canonical from himself ?

[slacka]

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

My point was even after tweaking Gnome 3 on Fedora 25, I still found the desktop missing modern features like thumbnails of windows instead of text. The bug reports shows it's a feature people want that devs still haven't implemented for Gnome 3. Unity has had it for several years. So back to Unity 8 I went.

[theghost]

Sure, but they also seem burnt out, which explains why a few days ago I spotted strange tweets from some Canonical employees related to suicide.

Well, in the past, you could hear the rumor that working capacity for developers was pretty high at Canonical and that the one or other developer was unhappy about that but heard that some months ago.

Guess all the downstream patching vs upstream battle can be pretty hard...

Good luck with your future endeavors, Daniel.

[starshipeleven]

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.

OpenSUSE always did that better and yet people are on Ubuntu.
The reason of Ubuntu's continued popularity is far higher marketing effort.

[starshipeleven]

how mark shuttleworth could but canonical from himself ?

I used the "" for a reason.

[A-Singh]

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 ,

I think millions of users would disagree with that first statement. Why not actually try running a more recent version rather than just speculating?

[kirgahn]

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.

just enable alternate-tab with gnome-tweak-tool and you got your LIVE thumb previews. And, of course, you can use the expose feature, which i personally love, to get way bigger and more detailed live previews of your windows. Just press meta and you're good to go. I personally use GNOME, MATE, lxde and xfce4 everyday and used KDE and fluxbox a lot in the past. I've got a co-worker right behind me boasting unity... I just can't suffer it, it feels way less smooth than GNOME.To each his own, i guess.

[nomadewolf]

Sure shows how much Canonical pays if their employees can afford to leave just because they feel like it...

That's his 'official' statement.

[tomtomme]

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.

huh? but then they would need to use opensuse, because that is the distro with yast and thus no need to use the command line ever.

[tomtomme]

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.

you guessed wrong. let me google that for you "unity extensions ubuntu"
http://www.datamation.com/open-sourc...u-unity-1.html