Re:Ubuntu 16.04 Unity 8 current state [video]
by tracker1 on Thursday December 29, 2016 @05:06PM
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Ubuntu is arguably the most widely used Desktop Linux distro, and likewise has become very popular on the server. In this case they felt that they had a better handle on the UI needs for the graphics system in place, and in fairness they probably do. In fairness, Canonical is free to do wtf they want... there are places where they've gone with the larger linux community and other upstream things (like SystemD).
I really don't fault them too much for their decision, especially depending on how much, or not their input was considered regarding Wayland... I'm also not sure when each respective project was started.
I do find a few quirks around Ubuntu... my HTPC box is about the only Ubuntu UI I work with, the rest are VM images running a server version. The intel audio (via hdmi) often doesn't come back after sleep/suspend, there are other issues there (i3-5010U nuc), but for the most part, I appreciate the Unity ui. That said, I don't do much beyond launch Kodi or Chrome and the terminal to fix problems after updates more often than I'd like.
Also, sometimes you need a dissenting opinion in order to make something better. As much as I've disliked some of the delays from MS wrt browser enhancements, a lot of the time what comes out after is arguably better than what came before... although I do still feel that MS should have just adopted SQLite for web-sql like everyone else.
It really does depend. In the end, canonical is dedicating developer resources to make something better, and is a much smaller company with far fewer resources than Intel.
I really don't fault them too much for their decision, especially depending on how much, or not their input was considered regarding Wayland... I'm also not sure when each respective project was started.
I do find a few quirks around Ubuntu... my HTPC box is about the only Ubuntu UI I work with, the rest are VM images running a server version. The intel audio (via hdmi) often doesn't come back after sleep/suspend, there are other issues there (i3-5010U nuc), but for the most part, I appreciate the Unity ui. That said, I don't do much beyond launch Kodi or Chrome and the terminal to fix problems after updates more often than I'd like.
Also, sometimes you need a dissenting opinion in order to make something better. As much as I've disliked some of the delays from MS wrt browser enhancements, a lot of the time what comes out after is arguably better than what came before... although I do still feel that MS should have just adopted SQLite for web-sql like everyone else.
It really does depend. In the end, canonical is dedicating developer resources to make something better, and is a much smaller company with far fewer resources than Intel.