On 04/05/2017 01:40 PM, Matthew Crews wrote:
> Good riddance to Unity. That was essentially an unnecessary fork of
> Gnome with polarizing opinions (on top of the polarizing opinions of
> Gnome). I think shifting back to Gnome 3 is the right decision in the
> long run (especially since Debian uses Gnome 3). That said there are
> features of Unity I like, but not many.
I'm a little split. While ultimately I think that not having Unity
around will better focus development at a more common level; it's sad to
see so much development time and energy spend on something just to have
it abandoned. Hopefully the good parts of Unity will make it into other
projects so that they can live on.
Too bad they couldn't have decided to shift to KDE... but that's just my
own self service opinion. :-)
> Where do you see that Mir is going away? Not seeing it in the article.
> That said, I again agree that Mir is unnecessary when we have Wayland.
I believe that it's implied since Gnome doesn't run on Mir. I suppose
there is the possibility that Canonical could spend the next year
porting Gnome to Mir though without that push to phone/tablet, I don't
think there is much point to that.
> Ubuntu phone was, in my opinion, as DOA as Firefox OS and Tizen, and
> Windows Phone.
Yeah, it was a good concept, and I could have taken off if it was the
first to market, but it's too little too late in a world that already
had Android.
> Microsoft can't even get convergence right with Windows 10, and they
> have the money to do it, but then again this is Microsoft we are
> talking about. Android/Chrome OS are going to be closest we get (and
> it appears to largely be successful in Samsung's Galaxy S8, app
> support notwithstanding).
Microsoft's biggest problem with convergence is they have completely
married themselves to the x86 architecture, and so while MS can create
an interface for other devices, those devices will largely require
non-x86 processors to run and the software for those processors just
isn't there, so Linux ends up with a much much better offering in that
case, but has a chicken and egg problem. The ultimate filler for that
niche probably hasn't been made yet.
Brian Cluff
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