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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by kleiba on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:22PM (#14044772)
GNOME has been doing some really cool stuff as of late (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/top-features-in-gnome-3-2...).

Do you really think that? To me, this is just a collection of really old stuff and features that should be a matter of course.

Case in point: "the headline feature" (adjusting the color temperature of your display depending on the time of day) is something that has been around for years one way or the other on all operating systems.

Or take: "Bookmarking webpages in Web now takes a single click." Hasn't that been the case since, like, always? Even if I'm wrong, I would hardly file such a feature under "really cool stuff".

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by AdmiralAsshat on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:50PM (#14045003)
Case in point: "the headline feature" (adjusting the color temperature of your display depending on the time of day) is something that has been around for years one way or the other on all operating systems.

But not in Wayland. I'm happily using Redshift in Cinnamon (one of the other things keeping me on Cinnamon), but the fact remains that having it built into the distro makes it more readily accessible to everyone.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by unethical_ban on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:59PM (#14046024)
Yeah, and redshift has been available on Linux for a long time. Now it's built in the OS.

Windows 10 doesn't have that. What's your point?

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by jbicha on Thursday April 06, 2017 @01:37PM (#14052696)
Windows 10 will have it next week in the Creators Update. Android has it in 7 "Nougat" but most Android users don't have that version yet. It seems to me like GNOME was right on time.
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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by int_19h on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @08:16PM (#14046886)
Win10 doesn't have it out of the box, but third-party software that implements it (like f.lux) has been available for a very long time.

(Also, FWIW, Win10 insider builds do have it out of the box.)

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by lvillani on Thursday April 06, 2017 @02:28AM (#14048392)
Third party software has been available on Linux distributions for a long time all the same.

Shipping this feature out of the box with an OS install started happening only recently (e.g. Night Shift came to iOS only 1 year ago, Windows 10 is getting it just now, AOSP has a "secret" knob to turn it on and it's enabled in 3rd party ROMs, etc).

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