Unity is dead.

>>59755091
>switching to Gnome
>not Cinnamon

What a waste

now we just need ubuntu to die

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>>59755091
>Unity is dead
>implying people won't continue it anyways
>doesn't understand the point of open source
Lol.

how many threads about this do we need?
search before you make a new thread, baka

>>59755122
Yeah, kill off the only distro that gives a fuck about attracting new users

Oh, well. Still, gnome?

>>59755159
new users =/= quality users

>>59755193
This is why you fat freetards will never have your Year of the Linux Desktop.

>>59755193
Everyone has to start somewhere

>>59755222
crunchbang or archbang

>>59755091
Unity was shit. RIP in pieces.

what about unity 8 and mir?

>>59755091
RIP Ubuntu. There's now literaly ZERO REASONS to use Ubuntu.

>>59755580
dead

>>59755561
>RIP in pieces.

You have to go back

>>59755608
>newfags telling newfags to go back
wow

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I like Gnome. Why am I wrong?

>>59755104
Why the fuck would we need two Linux Mints?

>>59755608
lurk before posting

>>59756194
>lurk before posting
You have to go back.

>>59756151
Why the fuck would we need two Ubuntu Gnomes?

>>59755091
unityfaggots BTFO

>>59756221
you liking this site? so EPICCC!! trump won!

damnit. unity has been shaping out really nice (it makes the gnome stack usable OOTB) and I just switched to it from Xfce about 6 months ago. well, come 18.04 it'll time to switch back to Xfce. at-least i have all my old configs for that environment backed up.

>>59756514
It will likely go the way of GNOME2 and get forked like MATE

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Unity was the only DE that was somewhat acceptable with minimal to no tinkering. The rest look absolutely awful out of the box, niggers.

>>59756563
it's not like they can't add their own extensions by default to Gnome 3.

I mean, that's what they did with Gnome 2 8 years ago.

>>59756514
Canonical might end up recreating Unity using GNOME3 as a basis, they like to have their own distinct look and feel for their OS.

>>59756388
Ubuntu GNOME will be the new Ubuntu.

>>59755091
So they dropped the tablet DE? Nice.

>>59756726
>>59756544
i hope either one of you is right. a global menubar just makes sense on gnome and gnome-based DEs. the launcher is fantastic (except for resource consumption under certain scopes like for clementine and other music apps). and the keyboard-driven stuff in unity is perfect (hud and the great default keyboard shortcuts were my main reasons for switching to unity). if KDE can perfect their resurrected global menu and implement something as useful as hud, or budgie incorporates a global menu, those would be my main DEs to consider if unity falls hard to the wayside. otherwise it's xfce again all the way.

>>59755535
>It will ship with 20.04 LTS this time for sure hehe

time for elementary OS, right guys?

>>59756831
For another tablet DE

>>59756563
>what is Pantheon

>>59755091
It seems 2018 will be the year of GNOME on the Linux Desktop.

>>59756863

This. The whole HUD and global menu thing is amazing and it drives me nuts that I can't have it on my Windows work computer.

>switch to linux full time last year
>have to learn all the quirks in unity since Canonical had to be all FU and go do their own thing instead of using a mainstream DE
>get comfortable with it
>know how to set everything up just right
>get comfortable using a terminal and typing in commands manually
>nearly a year later
>see this

what the fuck, what was the point of this dumb shit to begin with

they should have just kept gnome or cinnamon, now I have to learn all these hassles all over again

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>niggas dont know about appmenu for gtk2/3

>>59757820
I think they will use Gnome shell as a basis for future unity versions.
The keyboard shortcuts, the global bar, HUD and great screen real estate are top tier, they won't ditch that for a turd like gnome shell.

>>59757861

if I could use gnome-shell panel with i3, i would switch, but alas. I cant. the window decorations in gnome are fucking terrible. HUGE ASS BARS ON THE TOP OF EVERY FUCKING WINDOW, WASTING SCREEN REAL ESTATE.

>>59755091
Maybe gnome can finally get those file picker thumbnails

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This sucks, I actually like Unity and hate Gnome.

>>59757939
Well at least Ubuntu will tweak gnome so that it's not dog shit out of the box. That's what they should have done in 2011.

>>59755127
>implying more than 1 dev gives a shit about Unity

Can anyone tell me why Ubuntu doesn't just let you pick from a handful of DEs during install, like Debian does? It doesn't need to be that many options but at least GNOME, MATE, and maybe xfce or something. It can have a default/suggested one (GNOME).
This would address so many complaints and is easy.

>>59755091
lunix is ded

fuck me sideways

>>59758170
>Implying that more than 1 dev gives a shit about Linux in general

>>59755091
Great news. Make Ubuntu Great Again.

>>59758653
it would confuse ubuntscrubs

>>59758704
But, linux is like the biggest community software project ever anon...

>>59755159
When Ubuntu is dead Solus can rise to its rightful place as the official Linux desktop

hopefully they take gnome and make it look good by default.

>>59758653

Ubuntu is supposed to be easy to understand for everybody. Anyone who understands the difference between Unity and XFCE should install it themselves because the target audience would just be confused. At least I think that's the idea. At that point you're probably better off using Mint or some other distro that's more your style.

>>59756863
Gnome and all of its pros with a proper global menu is literally all I wanted. Based.

>>59758053
>Well at least Ubuntu will tweak gnome so that it's not dog shit out of the box
Default gnome really is dog shit. I have no idea what those "designers" are doing to GNOME.
Once it's fully altered and configured it's pretty good though

>>59755091
>Ubuntu failed to build an ecosystem EP 27

They will be an SaaS company.

so what's the difference between debian and ubuntu now?

>>59756221
>You have to go back.

You have to go back.

>>59755091
Arch linux is actually as easy as Ubuntu now.

>>59755091

Good riddance.

>>59755159

Ubuntu project will continue. Unity is dead.
You can take it like this: "Ubuntu GNOME" will become "Ubuntu"

>>59755215
hahaha can't believe these people actually exist
YOTLD happened a decade ago, everything since then has just been improvements.

>b-but it's still hard to use
Yeah, and that's the way it should be. Just look at ubuntu's or mint's support forum, and see how many clueless retards feel they are entitled to your free time because they are "starting out with linux".
If they can't figure out shit themselves, they will never contribute to the community, and simply soak up the valuable time of talented contributors.

Fuck new users and fuck ubuntu. If someone can't be assed to do the basic research themselves, they can feel free to stick with whatever they already have.

>>59756617
>it's not like they can't add their own extensions by default to Gnome 3.
Then it starts crashing like hell

>>59763903
Not as stable. I would rather spend my weekend with my girlfriend instead of fixing my OS.

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>>59755091
Ubuntu now confirmed to come packaged with a riced i3 with loads of anime by Mark Shuttleworth

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>>59764089
Yeah becuase that'll attract more new users.
Retard

>>59761995
Nothing.

>>59764105
It was a joke you fucking ape.

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This pleases me greatly. Not the end of Unity, but what should be the end of Mir.

It'll also probably result in increased extension development for Gnome, which is nice.

Well, fuck. I was enjoying the HUD search.

>>59761995
ubuntu have more recent packages in its LTS.
Debian is still targeting to be "stable".