[rpcope1]

Kind of sucks to see LXD get pulled from Linux Containers. Stéphane's (and the rest of the Linux Containers team) work has been incredible, and honestly it gets slept on way too much. LXC containers have been incredibly powerful and useful for me, though I never bothered to learn LXD. I have this bizzare intuition that Canonical is watching Red Hat, and that there's a non-zero possibility of them aping the whole pay a subscription to get the source and distro thing Red Hat is currently engaging in.

[hospitalJail]

It was like 15 years ago, but I though Canonical threw some red flags when they had that terrible ubuntu GUI update to have a ribbon.

Completely unnecessary, 100% visual, and made everything worse.

I bailed from them shortly after that, even with the option to use other GUIs. As Linux desktop has matured, it hasnt been necessary to go back to Ubuntu.

I imagine most of Canonical's power comes from users who don't try new things, or corporations who are too big to change anything.

[lproven]

> that terrible ubuntu GUI update to have a ribbon.

Which one was that?

No version of Ubuntu I've ever seen has ribbons. This is one of the reasons I like it.

Do you mean when they switched from Unity to GNOME?

[galkk]

As I suspect that op meant that left sidebar that Ubuntu actually introduced with Unity. It was definitely ugly and unnecessary, especially with Amazon button on it by default (if I recall correctly).

[lproven]

Ah, could be, by the timing. The wording threw me off.

I loved Unity. I still use it today.

[hospitalJail]

Yeah that sounds right. I can't quite remember the details because it has been 15 years and I loved trying different distros in general. I wasn't tied to the Ubuntu platform.

I suppose if I'm tied to anything, its the Debian branch of distros.