Ubuntu dies. You're given tons of cash and developers to replace it.
What's it look like and how is it different?
Donate cash and developers to debian
Make them create a Qt based lightweight DE for debian
>>57289466
This, provide resources to make Debian better. We have enough philosophies for Operating systems imho
Gran the cash and run away
Ubuntu was a person? What did they look like?
>>57289466
>Donate money to debian
>Debian defends social justice
>>57289447
Replace the DE with a Qt Cinnamon clone and add atomic updates.
>>57289466
>Make them create a Qt based lightweight DE for debian
http://lxqt.org/
>hire and poach a bunch of old Apple, MS, and Google employees
>together we build an actually good, actually free (as in libre) OS that you can install on any hardware
>but we offer a completely free (libre) line of desktops and notebooks that would make Stallman cream his shorts
The project would still fail because people still love what they already have.
>>57289466
>Donate cash and developers to gentoo
ftfy :^)
>>57289447
>salvage what I can from ubuntu's skeleton
>focus on codec and driver support
>make unity 2.0 into a more well-developed and customized version of gnome
>let users choose at install what non-essential packages they want pre included
>spend rest of money into developing open source web browser that doesnt suck a bag of dicks
>>57289447
>open source software
where is this cash coming from
>pick up where trusty left off
>keep upstart
>dump unity
>adopt lumina
>pull eglibc from wheezy to replace glibc
>hire dalias to continue developing it
>dump pulseaudio and alsa
>make oss4 default
>include pax and grsec in the default kernel
>statically link the entire base system
>port distro to mips
>dump gcc, make clang default
>replace sudo with doas
>replace openssl with libressl
>hire Eric S. Raymond just for shits and giggles
>>57290014
when can you start
>make ubuntu gnome mainline ubuntu
>destroy lxde
>destroy kubuntu
>destroy mir move to wayland
>keep packages more in line with debian so there is less work to do
>>57289917
Whoever take money, they are obliged to say whatever donneur wants.
>>57289858
A huge fucking neckboard riddled with joint problems but doesn't wanna change anything about it and is probably going to die due to the fact they stubborn
>>57289466
>Unironically giving money to the most overrated tranny distro
That moneys on the way to the Arch developers senpaitachi
https://www.archlinux.org/donate/
>>57290776
>Implying most of the arch users on here aren't traps
You haven't spent much time on the rice or channel have you?
> take Ubuntu leftovers as a base to start with
> integrate something like WINE on steroids with proper GUI
> Cinnamon-like DE as default
> Full media codec support
> total compatibility with all the hardware
> light mode to choose upon install for IoT stuff and old crap
> Sell ThinkPads/EliteBooks/Latitudes with /NuBuntu/ preinstalled
>>57290893
I like qt traps
I don't like software plagued by any form of political motivation and Debian is guilty of that most of all.
https://wiki.debian.org/research
>"Gabriella "Biella" Coleman: ethics, legal pedagogy, liberalism in Debian and Free Software "