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Re:Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop ... by snicker7 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @10:06PM (#26381955)
Bazaar and snaps came before git and flatpak.

Unity came about with the Gnome 2 to 3 transition (and earlier versions of Gnome 3 were widely agreed to be a step backwards).

Upstart has a very different design philosophy than systemd. Hard to say its NIH when it was different tech.

NIH apparently means "not adopting whatever RedHat develops/supports".

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Re:Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop ... by axaxs on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:51PM (#26389861)
Bzr and Git started at about the same time, but Git moved much faster and its 1.0 was way before bzr(not that that matters much, honestly).

Flatpak was known about and talked about before snaps, as another pointed out.

Upstart - that's fair, upstart was something new that didn't get replaced by systemd for a couple cycles.

Like it or not, Red Hat controls gnome which is a huge ecosystem. Your best bet for effecting change there is collaboration, not hacking together your own UI for yourself. I mean, sure they are free to do that, but the writing was on the wall before it even started.

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