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Ubuntu Dumps X For Unity On Wayland
An anonymous reader writes "Canonical and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Ubuntu will move away from the traditional X.org display environment to Wayland — a more modern alternative. The move means there is now little reason for GNOME developers to recommend Ubuntu as an operating system. Shuttleworth said, 'We're confident we’ll be able to retain the ability to run X applications in a compatibility mode, so this is not a transition that needs to reset the world of desktop free software. Nor is it a transition everyone needs to make at the same time: for the same reason we'll keep investing in the 2D experience on Ubuntu despite also believing that Unity, with all its GL dependencies, is the best interface for the desktop. We'll help GNOME and KDE with the transition, there's no reason for them not to be there on day one either.'"
If you're right, it's creepy how much it parallels Obama's and the Democratic party's ambitions over the past two years.
Lets change what works and make it harder and more awkward to use.
Guess I'll keep on Loving Gentoo.
They talk about using nouveau for NVIDIA cards... well that is really not an option for some people.
Ubuntu should NOT limit their hardware choices.
Nice troll! You managed to choose a topic that is probably as complex and volatile as Kirk vs. Picard, but yet is not as familiar.
> So, it'll be kind of like running X on my Mac OS X machines. A modern
> display server, with the ability to run a non-root X on top of it.
Yes. In other words it will be something that makes you want to delete the offending OS and run a proper Unix/Linux.
MacOS fits into the "nifty like BeOS but less useful in practice" category here.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
> You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?
No. I just happen to do this for a living.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Not really. That statement sums up everything wrong with Gnome and KDE development. Both camps hold the fault of the mess that is the Linux desktop in their hands. It's their fault that Linux is not as useable as it should be because they cant get over their petty and silly differences and join to make a single decent desktop.
I like "choice" but only when choice is between good things not half done betas.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Mac OS X is a "proper" Unix. X is crap. It was crap when you had to configure it on Linux by playing with modelines, and it's crap now.
That's an awfully long way of saying "I fall into the 1% of users you mention that don't want this".
Out of interest, do you even run Ubuntu right now?
which is totally what she said
Oh don't kid us.
You don't have the authority to fire anyone.
You're just another bitter troll in his mother's basement.
My attitude about "MacOS as Unix" comes from decades of using real Unixen. Being able to employ tricks and tweaks that predate Linux is what makes Linux more of a Unix than MacOS.
"Forking the display driver" will similarly create a great deal of distance between Linux and every other real Unix just like the same thing on MacOS does.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.