[Darmody]

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 with Unity right now. Unity wasn't bad. I disliked it at first because it lacked features and it wasn't polished. After some time a lot of people started liking it.

But they messed up with Unity 8 and Mir. They didn't want to work with the community, they didn't care if they were working on stuff that already existed. Instead of working with the upstream devs, they worked alone. Where did they end up? Back to Gnome Shell with a lot of years of effort down the drain.

And this is even worse. More info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23433794

[ppseafield]

EDIT: As a reply to this pointed out, these predate the things I claimed were created from NIH syndrome. Please disregard.

Original comment:

They also created their own init system Upstart, only to replace it with systemd later. They have their own source control system, Bazaar.

I really appreciated Ubuntu back in '06 when my laptop's wifi and graphics drivers just worked out of the box. I've used Ubuntu in various forms for a long time. But their management has some serious NIH problems.

[theevilsharpie]

> They also created their own init system Upstart, only to replace it with systemd later. They have their own source control system, Bazaar... their management has some serious NIH problems.

Citing these as a case of NIH is inaccurate -- Upstart and Bazaar predate Systemd and Git, respectively.

It's fairer to say that Canonical's technology, for whatever reason, often doesn't seem to catch on with the broader FOSS community.

[ppseafield]

Ah! That's my error; thank you for pointing that out. I hadn't realized that. I'll edit my comment.