Ubuntu ditching Unity in 18.04

Hated Unity to be replaced by Gnome :) :)

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So it only took then 6 years to admit that their desktop was shit? Gnome 3 is worse though...

bye screen real estate

Why not just kill MIR?
Fucking retards, Unity 7 was actually pretty good and stable, Unity 8 was looking good just replace MIR with Wayland.

>Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Canonical is to end its investment in Unity 8, Mir, Ubuntu for phones and tablets, and will no longer pursue its goal of “convergence”.

So the company is hard up on cash then right?

omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/ubuntu-18-04-ship-gnome-desktop-not-unity

They're killing both

...

Gnome 3 isn't bad, but kde is miles better

It seems 2018 will be the year of GNOME on the Linux Desktop.

all these Gnome 3 haters and KDE shillers.

[spoiler]I love it, it makes me feel cozy like in the good old days.[/spoiler]

And what is will happen to Ubuntu gnome once they switch?

>So the company is hard up on cash then right?
And Xfce is the best by far.

>So the company is hard up on cash then right?
No they are just wanting to put their resources into the cloud computing where business is actually growing instead of maintaining a DE that is worthless.

Ubuntu Unity(tm)

Nigger, Unity was a weak rip-off of Gnome anyways. Who cares?

>XFCE
It's the [CURRENT CENTURY], user

I like Unity.

there's a shell extension for undecorating maximized windows + you can autohide the bar
it's still worse though

>16:9
your opinion is not relevant

It's hard to be better than Unity regarding title-bars, tbqh

Can't wait for Ubuntu Unity.

That's the point I made in another thread, no amount of extensions will fix severe design flaws and incompetent devs.

>So the company is hard up on cash then right?
I don't think so, I think they just had Unity on its last chance and decided to shitcan it, which is a pity because it's all that stopped it being just another Gnome distro

>kde
Just avoid the PIM in general and Kmail in particular. Kmail is a disaster area on an incomprehenisble scale measured on the upper end of the Richter's.

>canonical removed the one good feature from ubuntu

what the fuck is wrong with shuttleworth? is he just massively incompetent or what the fuck is he doing? Ubuntu is such a piece of shit, it's almost like a piece of art, how does one make such a shit OS not on purpose

And Windows 10 looks like a rip off of Xfce 4.12

Unity was a hacked Gnome

unity was compiz + gnome applications

Why use Ubuntu then? Unity was great.

Technically it was a frankenstein's monster of GNOME 3 with Compiz instead of mutter. Gnome shell was just a plugin for Mutter like unity is for compiz.

this. unity is superior and it's a fucking shame that they kill it off. i hope there will be a fork.

This sucks, I love Unity.

Gnome is a dumpster fire.

ubuntu without unity, well, if i wanted the bloatfest that is gnome 3, i've would installed fedora in the first place.

ubuntu unity flavor when? or uubuntu?

Embrace Debian, you cucks.

>everyone shits on unity
>ubuntu kills unity
>everyone loves unity

God fucking damnit the only reason I use ubuntu over anything else is Unity.
Back to Manjaro xfce I guess

Unity 7 is crap, Unity 8 on Wayland could've actually been good, but they're replacing it with gnome cancer.

>ITT: typical Sup Forums

You retards know you can install a different desktop right?

Or even only use a wm

Unity 7 is miles ahead of gnome though.

>everyone
You just fell for the meme, unity always was the best de.

So how is KDE doing these days?
Gnome 3 feels pretty bare bone and MATE is reliable but old.

But that's bullshit, at the most Win10 looks similar to Plasma 5

It's still amuses me how both Canonical and GNOME were outdone by a bunch of amateurs

the fuck are they doing? unity 7 is lighter on resources than bloated gnome.

What will happen with Compiz now that Unity is dead? Wasn't the developers of Unity the ones of Compiz?

i am asking myself the same thing, i don't like the amount of pointless features and million settings of KDE but it's so much less cancer than gnome/gtk

kwin, krunner, and most of the default qt software is objectively better though

Unity was the main reason I used Ubuntu. If Canonical didn't make it so hard for developers to port Unity to other distros I would have switched to Arch or Debian.

I don't have any major reasons to still be using Ubuntu anymore. I definitely don't want to be stuck using a months old version of gnome all the time.

At least this should help with the fragmentation problem a bit.

I'm not sure if Unity is "lighter" on resources but it's definitely lighter on using screen space.

Plasma 5 now has a global menu.

But Unity was better than Gnome 3 :( :(

>replace thrash by a piece of turd
lol nice decision

Runs well and has been really stable on my machine™

Give KDE Neon a shot

I think you have just found the reason I hated gnome but could never pinpoint it.

>Give KDE Neon a shot
>align panel to the right
>resize it, make it grow depending on how many widget it has
>right click -> 'lock widgets'
>"plasm has crashed, sorry boi, not this time"
>It automatically reloads, not so bad I guess...
>widgets are locked, PANEL HAS A HUGE FUCKING GAP on the right side, where the menu was when widgets were unlocked.
>try again
>plasma crashes
>a huge gap
>apt remove --purge kde-desktop && apt install ubuntu-desktop

pretty much this or similar happens to me every time I give kde a shot.

Is it any better on something like openSUSE?

Just use Xfce you fucking nerds

Nope, I tried tumbleweed recently and KDE would still randomly crash pretty often when changing settings. But if you really want to see it shit itself, try running it under Wayland! I couldn't get it stable to save my life.

I'd use KDE if it was as stable as gnome, but it's just not there yet.

Does anyone else who used hidpi scaling on KDE find that it doesn't work as nice compared to unity,gnome, or cinnamon?

joint the true DE for patricians

MATE

>t. turbo babyduck

meh I was looking at tumbleweed too, but fuck it then

>tfw it will never get there because there is no kde vision and no interest in having a stable, coherent product like gnome

I haven't used Ubuntu in ages, but the only thing I will be sad to see gone is the HUD. From what little I used of it it had potential to be useful.

My name is jeff

I use it frequently, once you get used to it it's goat.
Hopefully it won't go away.

You can easily make xfce look like windows 10

Cinnamon is really gross and laggy

>hurr bdurr unity is TRASh and it has SPYWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now
>no unity pls stay ;-;

make up your mind faggots

Is there a way to make Gnome 3 not feel like a fisher-price toy with it's colossal window decorations and wasted space?
Is there a good menu extension?

Unity is far better than gnome shell, just look at how much vertical space gnome shell wastes for no reason.

>everyone forgetting that Unity is Free, Open Source Software and will continue living on for as long as people use it

>will continue living on for as long as people maintain it
FTFY

>MATE
gruh-tay buh-tay, muh-tay.

Yes.

No.

Just use Xfce.

Ubuntu 18.04 daily .iso when??

Well this came out of fucking nowhere. Unity may be heavy & ugly but it's a superior to gnome in every single way.

if you want right just fucking install macOS you faggot

>2017
>not programming your os using a free game development engine

>not programming your OS in Scratch

the fucking KDE shills are killing me
this

Get Xfce + compton or use GNOME 3 + Wayland.
fucking KDE shills get the fuck out with your windows rip-off REEEEEE

what said
all the effects feel unnecessary, there's smooth-scrolling tear. Feels like dogshit on my Intel HD 5500 but somehow works fine on the HD 3000. It's far from being the best but I could use it as a daily.

I guess they don't care about workstation and desktop users. Hopefully they backport and commit to GNOME/Wayland and help the greater good instead of leaching and cruising.

do any of you want a quick blogpost on DEs?
I hope they unfuck the GNOME project. Probably won't happen

Hoy shit. You are retarded.

GNOME is fubar since 2015

don't worry, Ubuntu GNOME is still stuck there. kek

>Not using xfce

So this pretty much means GNOME is once again the de facto Linux DE.

>triggered gnome faggot

Press F Pay Respects

i dont even use linux you fucking retard

>uses KDE NEON
>installs unity on top
absolute madman

>using screen tearing

I kinda want to make gnome look like unity too, for screen real-estate.

Year of Lxqt desktop when?

>i shove muh opinions in a thread that doesn't even concern me
Fuck off pedantic faggot.

It's just a DE, I'll continue using Ubuntu.

When they finally release their damn shit

KDE still feels like a fucking mess and Gnome is utter garbage.

The promise of Unity 8 (Unity written in Qt) was the only thing keeping me from installing Windows 10, but now that it is dead and buried, I rather install Windows.

Unity is shit but gnome is even shittier

It's funny how windows and OSX interface changes over the years seem less drastic compared to Ubuntu's.