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Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the end-of-an-era dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's official: Ubuntu has, with its ironically named 'Unity' interface, chosen to move away from GNOME for Ubuntu Natty Narwhal. Or at least move away from GNOME Shell. Mark Shuttleworth says that Ubuntu will still be 'GNOME,' even if it's not using GNOME Shell. Do you agree?"

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  1. Confusion by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Not a clue what any of this means. I'll just stick with Windows or Mac. You buy it, turn it on, and it works." - Joe Q Public

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    "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
    1. Re:Confusion by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Troll

      Disagree. I think a guy further up summarized my point perfectly:

      "Consistency. When your product changes all the time, people are going to have to deal with these changes..... it gets really old when your task bar is moved to the other side of the screen, your menus are all reorganized, and the terminal session shortcut that used to be on a particular convenient context menu is now gone."

      Joe Q Public won't put up with this crap, and that's why 99% of them never touch Ubuntu or any other Linux desktop. "Microsoft [and Mac] has been able to provide more consistency than a lot of these Linux distros."

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      "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  2. Re:I agree... by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Troll

    Reporters routinely inject words like "ironic" or "far ___ wing" or whatever to make their articles more interesting. No reason /. reporters would be any different.

    And it is ironic the desktop's called "unity" but appears to be dividing the community.
    Similar to when Puppy Linux switched from SeaMonkey to Chromium - it created division not unity.

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    "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  3. Re:Mwahaahaaa! by turkeyfish · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please. Its as good a name as any other, as long as you are cognizant of the consequences. Language is full of homonyms. Get used to it.