Ubuntu Unity Faces Possible Shutdown As Team Member Cries For Help (neowin.net)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/28/231256/ubuntu-unity-faces-possible-shutdown-as-team-member-cries-for-help
- Source link: https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-unity-faces-possible-shutdown-as-team-member-cries-for-help/
> Ubuntu Unity is staring at a possible shutdown. A community moderator has [2]gone public pleading for help , admitting the project is "broken and needs to be fixed." Neowin reports the distro is suffering from critical bugs so severe that upgrades from 25.04 to 25.10 are failing and even fresh installs are hit. The moderator admits they lack the technical skill or time to perform a full rescue and is asking the broader community, including devs, testers, and UI designers, to step in so Ubuntu Unity can reach 26.04 LTS. If no one steps in soon, this community flavor might quietly fade away once more.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~darwinmac
[2] https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-unity-faces-possible-shutdown-as-team-member-cries-for-help/
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No, it isn't. It is YALDE (Yet Another Linux Desktop Environment)
It has nothing at all to do with Ubuntu the company.
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They created it, so they have something to do with it. It was an era when they wanted to be on the phones (ha ha), so they decided to bring down the quality of a DE to the phone level. They had to abandon it and go back to Gnome because it was unusable mess. The gnome managed to devolve in that time, unfortunately.
But they fixed it! (Score:4, Funny)
The see, all the real problems were in X11 but moving to Wayland fixed all there problems. How? By creating even larger problems to overshadow those problems. You're welcome Linux community members!
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GUI (non) standards still wag the desktop dog after several decades on both Windows and Linux. And the DOM. Why is that? Eye-candy addiction?
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What does the Document Object Model have to do with anything?
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it's not fair to blame this clusterfuck on wayland. the problem seems to be with maintaining the current version which still runs on x11/compiz. wayland support was planned for unity x but i don't think they got very far.
i'm not going to miss unity at all, i disliked it from the get go, and stunned when it was forced as ubuntu's default. iirc i was using windowmaker at the time. but to each their own, it seems it still has a few fans, some of them will have to pick it up. including porting it to wayland! to
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There is no way to fix something that is flawed in concept. Everything about unity is screwed up right down to the intended design. Touch centric interfaces have no place in real computing for real work. Touch is acceptable only on consumption only devices. The massive romper room icons, the inability to handle multi-screen in certain configs (like over and under) and so many more usability nightmares that just cant be fixed because its broken to its core. Phone interfaces don't belong on real desktops.
It's the community, not the technology or the idea (Score:2)
The success of an open source project does not stem from the brilliance of the idea or the elegance of the design. It comes from the dedicated and focused efforts of the community that supports it and builds it. If Unity doesn't have that community, it's not going to do well. A lesser project with a large, dedicated community around it, will ultimately make the cut.
Commercial software is like this too. The secret sauce is not the code itself, but the company that backs, maintains, enhances, and manages the
Unite (Score:1)
I test-drove Ubuntu Unity a year ago and it was nice, only overshadowed by Gnome after Ubuntu has added critical functionality to make it usable. When it shipped with Ubuntu it was controversial, and in hindsight, probably the wrong direction, but the Desktop experience is still more intuitive than a stick Gnome desktop. My major issue with Unity was performance-related.... But the hate seems misdirected, it's really not all that different from what Ubuntu has now. I don't particularly care for choice pa
Tactless Ambition (Score:1)
Bring something to the table.
Well, yes (Score:4, Informative)
Unity sucks. It sucked when it was released and it still does. No wonder there is no demand for it.