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by lonk 3169 days ago
The time, labor and money spent for unity in the end went to waste.
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NaliSauce 3169 days ago
Such is the nature of trying new stuff. Fairly often it fails and the effort is at least partially wasted.
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madez 3169 days ago
It wasn't waste. It was investing time to explore the space of alternatives.
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jstanley 3169 days ago
It almost certainly influenced Gnome, so it might not all be wasted.
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curt15 3169 days ago
Gnome shell beta pre-Unity: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JSR8IC77Ub4/TGI7upt62cI/AAAAAAAAA3...

Gnome shell after the Unity release: http://linuxbsdos.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/fedora-gnom...

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cisanti 3169 days ago
But what is the reason they still don't have proper window list / dock? Do many people use third party solutions like dock to Taskbar etc that clearly mimic Ubuntu.
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jdlyga 3169 days ago
ego
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