[PLUG] Ubuntu jumping off the X bandwagon?

[Darren Couch]

And here I am, chasing my way backwards towards a more minimalist desktop...
I suppose its inevitable to want more eyecandy and a better platform to
provide it, but until openGL starts beating DirectX in every possible way
and hardware manufacturers cough up current stable 3d enabled drivers it
seems like the cart before the horse to me...

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:54 PM, <nathan at nathanewilliams.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 13:19:25 -0700, Matt McKenzie <lnxknight at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Shuttleworth blog:
> > http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551
> >
> > And of course the inevitable /. story and comments:
> >
> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/11/05/137212/Ubuntu-Dumps-X-For-Unity-On-Wayland?from=fb
> >
> >>From what it sounds like, he wants to make a more aggressive move for
> > "mobile devices", but in the process this drastic change may alienate the
> > bread and butter normal desktop users.
> >
> > IMHO this should be tried as an alternative image first.  They already
> have
> > Ubuntu Netbook Remix, why not make an official netbook version using this
> > Unity + Wayland combo?
> > Leave the mainstream desktop alone. Again IMHO.
> >
> >
> > ----------
> > Matt M.
> > LinuxKnight
>
> the following is just my opinion...
>
> first, i'm glad to see some experimentation in the desktop arena. the
> large majority of popular distributions are largely vanilla gnome
> installations with a bit of tweaking, so anything that promotes
> diversity in the desktop space is ok by me. maybe in a few years we'll
> all be on Unity. that being said, i agree wholeheartedly that such a
> drastic shift should really be tested in a spawned release rather than
> main. i don't see the new-to-linux user that Ubuntu caters to taking
> this type of drastic shift lightly.
>
> this type of reckless abandon without regard to loudly expressed
> userbase concerns about the decision have prompted me to shuffle over to
> crunchbang statler (debian + openbox). things don't get much stabler
> than debian. so far it's been a good move, i was especially impressed
> that for once i didn't have to do any additional work to get my broadcom
> wireless working. it just worked!
>
> and... there it is again... choice.
>
> nathan
>
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Darren R. Couch
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