Mark Shuttleworth on where Canonical and Ubuntu Linux are going next

Re:Mark Shuttleworth on where Canonical and Ubuntu Linux ar... by jitix on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:18PM (#17271152)

I actually stopped using linux as my main OS in 2010 because of Gnome3 and Unity. The "Applications","Places","System" menu was clear, intuitive and desktop oriented. I never liked KDE, and MATE seemed like a rather unoptmized fork. So it left me with using Xubuntu VM on a Windows host (and I hate Windows because of it lacks bash).

Once I moved to the US I started using Mac and never looked back. The best thing that Apple does is that they don't try to merge desktop and tablet UX.

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Re:Mark Shuttleworth on where Canonical and Ubuntu Linux ar... by roryisok on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:11PM (#17271307)

> The best thing that Apple does is that they don't try to merge desktop and tablet UX

With all the IOS apps they keep bringing to macOS, the merging of the IOS and macOS dev teams, and the imminent release of ARM macbooks I wouldn't get comfortable

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Re:Mark Shuttleworth on where Canonical and Ubuntu Linux ar... by roryisok on Saturday June 09, 2018 @02:01PM (#17274153)

Not sure why that got downvoted but ok. Just expressing my opinion that apple are moving toward exactly this

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Re:Mark Shuttleworth on where Canonical and Ubuntu Linux ar... by pmontra on Saturday June 09, 2018 @03:32AM (#17271968)

There was, and there is, Gnome Flashback which is basically a Gnome 2 desktop with GTK 3. The Compiz cube still works.

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