Ubuntu GNOME Will No Longer Be A Separate Flavor

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu GNOME Will No Longer Be A Separate Flavor

Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 was released today alongside the other Ubuntu 17.04 flavors, but for those wondering what's happening to Ubuntu GNOME now that Ubuntu 18.04 will use GNOME with Unity being dropped, the Ubuntu GNOME flavor is winding down...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-GNOME-Merging-Back

[Prescience500]

I can't help but notice that in all of the explanations that have been coming out lately, they seem to pretend that KDE doesn't exist. They claim that no one does this and no one does that, but KDE does those things. They should just make Kubuntu their flagship, instead.

[lumks]

Canonical: We don't work on Unity anymore. Let's join forces and make the best Ubuntu Gnome ever!

Ubuntu GNOME Team: No. 'Cause FUCK YOU, that why.

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will never happen... but would be a so satisfying story for me to hear/read

[mike44]

Canonical please keep Unity 7 alive and updated. Why not put away with all Ubuntu flavours and let the user choose what desktop to use/install as default during install? Like OpenSuse etc.

[DanL]

Canonical please keep Unity 7 alive and updated.

There's a lot of uncertainty right now, but from what I understand, the plan is to have Unity7 installable from the universe repository at least through Ubuntu 18.04. I don't know if Ubuntu Unity will become an official flavor for 17.10 (maybe if there is substantial interest). I think the ultimate goal is to make Unity redundant by making a similar desktop with less maintenance burden.

[DanL]

Nah, it is much better for everyone just to pretend that KDE is not here.

You don't need to pretend other desktops don't exist unless you're a gnome fanboy and troll.

[edwaleni]

Essentially Ubuntu MIR and Ubuntu GNOME are swapping places. MIR will live on as a desktop supported by its fans and developers.

[Slartifartblast]

Telling KDE the truth is not without a cost. Just imagine all the butthurt feelings that will flood the forums if someone told the truth. Unaudited code that crash in million ways is not something you want to deal with. Worse, it is incoherent. And without proper design.

Nah, it is much better for everyone just to pretend that KDE is not here.

When your balls drop and voice breaks I may consider your opinion.

[Guest]

Telling KDE the truth is not without a cost. Just imagine all the butthurt feelings that will flood the forums if someone told the truth. Unaudited code that crash in million ways is not something you want to deal with. Worse, it is incoherent. And without proper design.

Nah, it is much better for everyone just to pretend that KDE is not here.

Basing on you Gnome's motto is: by idiots for idiots. Something funny for you:

The winner in the category didn't surprise me at all. And that's KDE's Plasma desktop. It received over 34% of the votes.

In my experience, Plasma is 'the' most advanced desktop environment around, it beats even Windows and Mac OS X.

Dolphin is 'the' best file manager. Period. Nothing, not Finder on Mac OS X, Explorer on Windows, or Files on Gnome, comes anywhere close to Dolphin when it comes to ease of use of richness of features.

Coming in second with 26% of the votes was the good old Xfce, which is among the trusted desktop environments.

http://www.cio.com/article/2881172/s...vironment.html

Too bad market share for 'reference Linux dekstop' is quite low on Linux.



KDE however, should get rid of stupid people:

https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/in-5-...loper/#respond

It's more likely in five years there will be no PC-BSD/FreeBSD at all.

[A-Singh]

When your balls drop and voice breaks I may consider your opinion.

Never expected anything to make me laugh on the Phoronix forums