[BirAdam]

I felt much the same way. The global menu also fixed the issue of people shoving menus into hamburgers that I hate. Unity additionally had their search feature that doubled as a run box which was awesome. Tap meta and type the application name and hit enter. Unity really maximalized productivity in my opinion. It’s a shame that Canoncial abandoned it, but being open source the community seems to have quietly continued.

Ultimately, I think Canonical just slowly realized that home users are going to cost money for everyone but Apple, while servers will make money. They shifted nearly all of their focus there and just package the same things everyone else does for desktop. Sadly, the one non-standard thing that they continue insisting on is Snap.

[Mikeb85]

> Unity additionally had their search feature that doubled as a run box which was awesome. Tap meta and type the application name and hit enter.

Gnome Shell does the same thing...

[lproven]

Which is a feature introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" nearly 20 years ago, under the name Spotlight, and now implemented in Windows Vista and almost every OS or desktop since then.

[noisem4ker]

...as does KDE Plasma with Krunner: https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Krunner

[hulitu]

and FVWM when you asign a key combination to open an xterm.

[lproven]

That is not even similar. Come on, play fair.

[losingom]

>Sadly, the one non-standard thing that they continue insisting on is Snap.

Snap was and largely is mainly for the server crowd, that they've shoved into the desktop. So in that regard I suppose it's at least consistent for them. That said, snap is still terrible, but Canonical always just does their own thing.

[wmf]

Docker won the server market years ago; Snap has no chance there.

[lproven]

Docker is a (declining) container format.

Snap is an app-packaging tool.

This is like saying that trumpets have won over bananas.

[sontek]

Who in the server crowd is using snaps?