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Unity 8 And Snaps Are Conquering The Ubuntu Desktop After Ubuntu 16.10 (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the divide-and-conquer dept.

prisoninmate writes: Today is the last day of the Ubuntu Online Summit 2016, and the Ubuntu developers discussed the future of the Ubuntu Desktop for Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) and beyond. It looks like Snaps (Snappy) and Unity 8 with Mir are slowly conquering the Ubuntu Desktop, at least according to Canonical's Will Cooke, Ubuntu Desktop Manager. Work has already begun on pushing these new and modern technologies to the Ubuntu Desktop, as Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has just received support for installing Snaps from the Ubuntu Snappy Store. Canonical's Will Cooke has mentioned the fact that the Unity 7 desktop enters its twilight years, which means that it gets fewer features and it's being reduced to only critical and OEM work. This is because Unity 8 desktop is getting all the attention now, and it will become the default desktop session somewhere after Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak).

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  1. Re:Who Cares? by wicka_wicka · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "It's been 25 years. I can do this for another 25. I'll wear them down." He'll wear them down? That kind of attitude is why they've failed thus far. You don't need to wear anyone down, you simply need to make a better desktop. I'm sure I will now be inundated with replies saying various Linux distros/window managers are, in fact, better than Windows and OS X. Guess what? Millions (billions?) of users disagree. And the prevalence of the idea that Linux is somehow Good Enough, despite all evidence to the contrary, is precisely why I have little faith it will ever get there.

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    hi
  2. linux desktop platform by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In response to anyone who questions whether Linux is a viable desktop, I have this to say:
    My father's first and only computer, at the age of 86, was Linux Ubuntu. He did just fine with it for 4 years.
    Windows was not even a consideration for my efforts to bring computers to him. Ubuntu simply worked for him with minimal support from me. If you prefer Windows or Mac that is fine. Just skip criticizing Linux for what it is.

  3. Re:If Unity 8 is the future... by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The release was DOA if you had skylake w/nVidia, for example. It was a known bug and went out the door. For the first time in years Ubuntu didn't "just work" on my computer. Worse, even if you asked it to take updates while installing, one of which would have fixed the issue, it failed to do so.

    Perhaps the problem is that it was set for April 2016 and shipped in April 2016 when maybe it needed to be in May.