I have made this same point repeatedly across HN, Reddit, Lobsters, and multiple other fora, and cited the link in articles. I have never seen any response from you before. I guess you just didn't notice.
I've been pondering an in-depth constructive reply for days, but life is too short. Today I want to enjoy father's day with my kid.
I am a long-standing HN member but I do find the tone of this community to be toxic and negative.
I was aghast when you asked that question, watched the horrible consensus hot-takes solidify... the typical nasty HN BS, stuff like "well actually I find GNOME good".
The main theme of the answers was to dump all the nonstandard Canonical code. Get rid of Unity, cancel the phone/tablet effort, bin the display server, bin the package format, and go with the default RH pale-stale junk: GNOME, Wayland, and the other bloated slop-filled nightmare that emits from that company.
And lo, it all came to pass.
Much of what made Ubuntu innovative and fresh and invigorating got junked. From the beautiful Unity to the tired derivative clunky GNOME, from X.org which did the job to the shambolic Wayland as designed by a committee with zero wider industry knowledge.
Somehow snap survived, even though hoi polloi here hate it.
What the blazes inspired you to ask here of all places? This place is an incestuous exercise in unimaginative groupthink.
And then why and how did it happen? It was as if someone summarised the worst of the NIH verdicts and then did them all.
I have made this same point repeatedly across HN, Reddit, Lobsters, and multiple other fora, and cited the link in articles. I have never seen any response from you before. I guess you just didn't notice.
I've been pondering an in-depth constructive reply for days, but life is too short. Today I want to enjoy father's day with my kid.
I am a long-standing HN member but I do find the tone of this community to be toxic and negative.
I was aghast when you asked that question, watched the horrible consensus hot-takes solidify... the typical nasty HN BS, stuff like "well actually I find GNOME good".
The main theme of the answers was to dump all the nonstandard Canonical code. Get rid of Unity, cancel the phone/tablet effort, bin the display server, bin the package format, and go with the default RH pale-stale junk: GNOME, Wayland, and the other bloated slop-filled nightmare that emits from that company.
And lo, it all came to pass.
Much of what made Ubuntu innovative and fresh and invigorating got junked. From the beautiful Unity to the tired derivative clunky GNOME, from X.org which did the job to the shambolic Wayland as designed by a committee with zero wider industry knowledge.
Somehow snap survived, even though hoi polloi here hate it.
What the blazes inspired you to ask here of all places? This place is an incestuous exercise in unimaginative groupthink.
And then why and how did it happen? It was as if someone summarised the worst of the NIH verdicts and then did them all.
It was heartbreaking to watch.