Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha...
by checkyoursudo on Thursday May 10, 2018 @06:18PM
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Why gaps, though? I'm not looking to pick a fight at all. I'm only curious. I just don't understand gaps.
I've been using i3 for years, and I tried out gaps when it first started popping up in the ricing forums (like https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/ [please note, it's not actual porn]).
Do you use gaps so that you can see little bits of your background image? Is it purely aesthetic? I can understand beefing up the borders so that there's some space between tiles, but the gaps seem like unnecessary waste of space.
The only thing I don't really like in the Ubuntu's model is the bi-yearly updates and the PPA system. Every time you upgrade the distro the PPA's get disabled and there's a lot of work enabling them and fixing the packages.
That being said, I installed NixOS to my other laptop and after two days got a configuration that just installs and configures everything I need. I might overwrite this Ubuntu installation with it and go rolling with the master.