[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.