Why did Ubuntu ditch Unity in favor of GNOME? It was one of the best desktop experiences Linux desktop had to offer back in it's heyday. Are they stupid?
>>107480254unity sucked balls, they should have stuck with gnome to begin with
>>107480254Same reason they ditched Ubuntu Touch; their it was a drain on resources that wasn't producing any income. They'd originally wanted to develop a noob-friendly distro with the cash coming from big support contracts from companies and government agencies and such, but that never materialized and the only part of their business that was successful was the servers.
>>107480254you are the minority
>>107480254>Ubuntu
>>107480254Because canonical can't do a single thing right. They abandon everything they do. They even lost the position of default linux distro to fedora.
>>107480254It did indeed look beautiful. Second to Gnome 2. Jewbuntus current nuGnome theming looks like garbage
>>107480254The people behind Ubuntu were crybaby retards. They bundled amazon malware at the time in their distro, constantly crying that people need to send them all the data from their machines, begging for donations.
>>107480254Can't you switch the desktop environment at login stage?
>>107480254outside of games I feel like Linux was overall better generally a decade ago
>>107480319nah... ubuntu is still king
>>107480254TLDR: moneyCanonical stopped giving a shit about Linux desktops and started to only focus on servers around 7-8 years ago. Why? Because they just don't get ANY money from the Linux desktop and it's a huge waste of resources. And when they tried to get some money by baking in Amazon ads, they had a massive backlash from many Linux users.Also, the main reason why Unity was made is because GNOME sucked ass during GNOME 3 era and GNOME devs were constantly arguing with Canonical.GNOME is much better now, even though it's devs are still autistic morons. But Canonical no longer cares about desktop so they're fine with just pre-installing a couple of GNOME extensions to make GNOME usable.Either way it's ultimately a good thing they abandoned Unity. If Linux is to be a "usable" OS it needs some standardization. Flocking to GNOME or KDE and ditching Mir for Wayland is a good thing for the whole ecosystem. As much as people don't want it to be true, standardization and centralization is ultimately just better for the end user in most cases.Not to mention you can achieve the same UI/UX on both GNOME and KDE. Maintaining Unity would just be wasted effort.
>>107480254Retard alert.
>>107480714King of losing.
>>107480796This. Canonical is just that one company which believes itself to be a trend/standard-setter, but ultimately is just irrelevant. Most Linux standards are set by RHEL. Even fucking Valve is more "in charge" than Canonical.
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>>107480714king of the linux for dummies
>>107480254It was the best gui for low res displays out of all os's, but then 1080p took over and Unity was not necessary anymore
>>107480254I liked that left icon panel with icons. I didn't liked the dash "lens" though. The icons were too big for my taste, 48px I think. I didn't care about most of the features. The apps lens (searching through apps) like every menu program would suffice. The rest of the lens were bloat. The killer feature was integration with menus, searching through menus was fucking good. But of course trannies ruined it with their retarded CSD thus lack of real menus.
>>107480254it was the best actually, and people were buthurt bc it had amazon search that could be easily disabled.but what was a real shame was mir...
>>107480254Because at the time Canonical wanted "one DE to rule them all" to fit their insane dreams of launching an "Ubuntu Phone". Remember that this was around the same time that Microsoft was thinking that touchscreens are the future and that desktop users will only be a tiny minority.Of course it didn't pan out and Unity is so unpopular nobody wants to work it anymore.
>>107486609>Remember that this was around the same time that Microsoft was thinking that touchscreens are the future and that desktop users will only be a tiny minority.... And? You're gonna claim they weren't right?
>>107486609unity was unpopular in the community bc of the amazon adds. also there was canonical against redhat in many aspects, and see how that ended
Gnome as they way to go
