Unity and the Community

Quoting:Right in the middle of all this are Ubuntu’s users who might be left wondering what their place in all of this is.

They're users, you know the people who use Ubuntu, their say in all of it is use or not.

Right in the middle of all this are Ubuntu’s users who might be left wondering what their place in all of this is.

The users place? My guess is that they should just accept this change as Ubuntu is not a democracy.

I'll keep moving out of the way of Unity, until it and Canonical have proven it is a better shell and a viable development. This will probably be when Gnome drops theirs for Unity and Fedora switches too.

It only leaves me wondering what Linux Mint will do. I might have to switch to LMDE.

Quoting:My guess is that they should just accept this change as Ubuntu is not a democracy.

Indeed, as Mr. Shuttleworth has bestowed on himself the title "Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life".

Granted, one could make the same claim about Slackware's Patrick Volkerding, but the phrase "tried and true" comes to mind as a clarification.

Ah, yes gus3. Good point. However, I've never seen Patrick Volkerding sing the community Kumbaya as Mr. Shuttleworth has done in the past, when Ubuntu wasn't quite the newbie magnet it is now.

As far as the SABDFL is concerned, I'm seriously doubting the B in that moniker. Benevolent for whom? Canonical, Ubuntu or the users?

I don't think any of us should underestimate the animosity and ill-will this is going to cause between the Gnome Dev team and Canonical. For better or worse, Gnome has busted their bums in evolving the Gnome Desktop. Ubuntu, due to their highly rated distro, was to be the show floor for Gnome 3. Instead, Canonical has swept away their hard work and efforts by presenting us with Unity.

I find it amusing that Canonical names their desktop Unity whereas it's going to cause the most extreme opposite possible.

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Wow, good point.

Kind of like the "German Democratic Republic." If you have to say it is, it probably isn't.

You've got to remember. Ubuntu rolling its own interface with Unity could be seen as a defensive/differentiating move to counter (or maybe compliment) Google's Chrome OS. Everybody seems to have stopped talking about Chrome OS. Probably because it was supposed to be taking the world by storm this holiday season and hasn't been heard from. ... But it could still be alive (and a potential threat to every other OS).

Given what Ubuntu did with the netbook interface on 10.04, let's give them time to see what they can do. It's not like GNOME is perfect. The netbook interface was so good that my wife largely gave up Windows. Others that saw it loved it as well. The more interfaces the better.

Quoting:Given what Ubuntu did with the netbook interface on 10.04

10.04 was the last relatively decent netbook desktop, 10.10 is now that piece of puss called unity.

BTW Linux Mint 10 looks great on a netbook.