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The Day The Desktop Died

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A reinterpretation of Don McClean's"American Pie"

A long, long time ago

Before Ubuntu sank so low

I used to like to dabble, just like you

I'd modify the menu part

Or quickly change the desktop art

And maybe even write a script or two

But then last winter changes came

And desktops wouldn't look the same,

Canonical announced with lots of pride

Ubuntu had a new design

And that made April twenty-nine

The day the desktop died

And so I'm singing

Bye, bye to the Real GUI

Now the desktop is a toybox for the Cloud in the sky

You can't work YOUR way and you'd better not try

They decided that the desktop will die

They're waiting for the desktop to die

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Comments (18)

Bravo!

IGnatiusTFoobar ·
Cheesy, but as much as possible we need to say (sing) negative things about Unity. Ubuntu has jumped the shark.
Grishnakh ·
I like it! Very clever, and very true.
tuxchick ·
Applause! I love it. And it got rid of the Neil Diamond earworm that has been haunting me all morning..."No ONE heard ME cry

Not

even

the

CHAIR"
jdixon ·
Well, at least you're not lost, TC :)

I've been in a Warren Zevon mood the past couple of days. No idea why.
Koriel ·
The wife and I have been in a distinctly AM Gold mood all week, I think i must of listened to "lonely boy" more than is good for me.
dinotrac ·
You guys are all more interesting than me.

I've been humming "Look for the union label".
cr ·
I generally have the "tune stuck in my head" for the day preset by whatever upbeat mp3 my scripts choose for the wakeup call in my household. Maybe tomorrow it'll be The Tubes' "What Do You Want From Life", and I'll be in the mood for Xmas shopping.



...So, who asked for the baby's arm holding an apple?
lcafiero ·
Pffft. Cute, but grossly inaccurate.

[tuxchick: "It's 'No one heard at all, not even the chair." What's worse, getting the words wrong or admitting I know the words to a lot of Neil Diamond's songs? The latter.]
tuxchick ·
What's worse is asking and answering your own questions. Is it crass of me to make an issue of this? Probably. Do I care? Probably not. Why am I saying "probably", don't I know? I'm not sure.
helios ·
TC...at least it wasn't "proly".

"Melinda was mine from the time that I found her....holding Jim....Loving him....."

ND isn't so bad if you have your Nehru jacket on....at least it isn't friggin' Air Supply.
gus3 ·
Air Supply.

Annoying Sap.
montezuma ·
Hair Supply

Worst Australian export ever.
helios ·
Gus, you do know somebody like Billboard or some organization voted them wimp band of the 80's.
jdixon ·
> Worst Australian export ever.

I wouldn't go that far. They're better than Men at Work.
tracyanne ·
Nor would I, Kylie Minogue is worse.
helios ·
Colin Hay was a gas in concert.....
Koriel ·
Best Australian export Icehouse and best NZ export Split Enz/Crowded house

Shows my age i kno,w plus I have the laser etched editon of True Colours its real pretty on a nicely lit deck.

Xfce is your friend

jzb ·
Even though Unity and GNOME have gone off in directions I don't care for, Xfce is still a champ.

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