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Tom (tom6) wrote on 2012-02-23: Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

#1609

Hi :)
True. I don't think this path would have been chosen if there had been any choice about it. I think we had 2 choices
1. stick with Gnome which had no touchscreen support and no intention of building that in any-time in the next few years plus watch Gnome
1.a) Watch Gnome head towards where Unity is now
1.b) copy Mint's idea of developing a "plugin" for gnome3 to make it look more like gnome2, with an ever increasing amount of work to keep the plugin working

2. Find something else that did have touchscreen support (or could develop it fairly easily) and was willing to be developed in a direction that might gain a larger user-share

I think both the Gnome project and the Ubuntu project failed to work together in a mutually beneficial way apparently causing perfectly reasonable and justifiable ire on both sides.

I don't follow the relevant threads and i am not invoved with either project so please forgive me if i have got it all wrong. I'm just giving my own impression as i squint from the distant side-lines.

Ubuntu has taken a hefty beating over this and has dropped from the 1st place position it has occupied for many many years in the opinion polls that i do occasionally glance at (at DistroWatch). Mint chose option 1b which gives us all at least 1 possible place to go in the short-term but it's an untenable position so hopefully Ubuntu's position will prove best in the longer-term as i would like to return to it if i am ever 'forced' to go to another member of the same family or perhaps even give Mageia or something for a try for a year or so.

Don't forget that support for the 10.04 LTS lasts until at least 2013, April so if the 12.04 LTS is not what we would hope then we still have a year more after that. Also while many of us had a bit of a nightmare moving from Windows to Ubuntu it is much easier to move between different distros, especially if they are in the same family. Even ones in different families are less of a stretch than between say Xp and Vista or Win7 in my opinion.

Back when Ubuntu first started Gnome probably wasn't as great as it was just before Gnome 3 arrived. Things move forwards. Unity will move forwards i am sure.

Regards from
Tom :)

Hi :)
True.  I don't think this path would have been chosen if there had been any choice about it.  I think we had 2 choices
1. stick with Gnome which had no touchscreen support and no intention of building that in any-time in the next few years plus watch Gnome 
1.a) Watch Gnome head towards where Unity is now
1.b) copy Mint's idea of developing a "plugin" for gnome3 to make it look more like gnome2, with an ever increasing amount of work to keep the plugin working

2. Find something else that did have touchscreen support (or could develop it fairly easily) and was willing to be developed in a direction that might gain a larger user-share

I think both the Gnome project and the Ubuntu project failed to work together in a mutually beneficial way apparently causing perfectly reasonable and justifiable ire on both sides.

I don't follow the relevant threads and i am not invoved with either project so please forgive me if i have got it all wrong.  I'm just giving my own impression as i squint from the distant side-lines.

Ubuntu has taken a hefty beating over this and has dropped from the 1st place position it has occupied for many many years in the opinion polls that i do occasionally glance at (at DistroWatch).  Mint chose option 1b which gives us all at least 1 possible place to go in the short-term but it's an untenable position so hopefully Ubuntu's position will prove best in the longer-term as i would like to return to it if i am ever 'forced' to go to another member of the same family or perhaps even give Mageia or something for a try for a year or so.

Don't forget that support for the 10.04 LTS lasts until at least 2013, April so if the 12.04 LTS is not what we would hope then we still have a year more after that.  Also while many of us had a bit of a nightmare moving from Windows to Ubuntu it is much easier to move between different distros, especially if they are in the same family.  Even ones in different families are less of a stretch than between say Xp and Vista or Win7 in my opinion.

Back when Ubuntu first started Gnome probably wasn't as great as it was just before Gnome 3 arrived.  Things move forwards.  Unity will move forwards i am sure.

Regards from
Tom :)