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On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 22:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I prefer Gentoo over Ubuntu for a host of other reasons, but switching |
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>> from Ubuntu to Gentoo just to get a different desktop seems like |
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>> overkill. |
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> Strange enough but according to the information from the DistroWatch.com |
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> Ubuntu lost a lot of users and its status of the most popular Linux |
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> distribution after switching from Gnome2 to Unity in its 12.04 LTS release. |
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It's easy for Distrowatch to claim something that's unprovable. |
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> And its not about a small change in an interface, it is about |
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> we-know-better-what-you-need approach that drove quite a lot |
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> of companies to bankrupcy. |
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The rationale at the time was that they wanted to use the right side |
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of the window bar "for an unspecified "something else." So they didn't |
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provide an integrated guified way to move the windows controls back to |
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the right; but gconf-editor was always an apt-get away. |
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There's still nothing there so they've either changed their minds, |
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were BSing us and simply wanted to imitate OS X, or were BSing us and |
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simply wanted to differentiate Unity from Gnome. |
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