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DrDominodog51 wrote:Where is Canonical burying Unity?
I need to know the correct grave to dance on.
just brew it! wrote:"Never mind!" </Emily-Litella>
bthylafh wrote:I won't miss Unity, but I wish they'd picked a different DE to switch to; I hate GNOME 3 for many of the same reasons as I do Unity. Maybe they should pick up MATE and go for a classic Ubuntu look.
just brew it! wrote:Unity and GNOME 3 were what originally convinced me to check out KDE. I'm pretty comfortable with KDE these days, but I imagine GNOME 3 has settled down by now to the point it is tolerable. If KDE 5 sucks (I am still running 4.x) I'll probably bounce back to GNOME. KDE 5 has been out long enough now that it shouldn't be too bad though.
srg86 wrote:just brew it! wrote:Unity and GNOME 3 were what originally convinced me to check out KDE. I'm pretty comfortable with KDE these days, but I imagine GNOME 3 has settled down by now to the point it is tolerable. If KDE 5 sucks (I am still running 4.x) I'll probably bounce back to GNOME. KDE 5 has been out long enough now that it shouldn't be too bad though.
I use KDE 5 as my daily driver at home. Some people at work are using it too, they switch from Unity because they hated it, sadly I'm still stuck on Windows . Anyway though I still don't think it's quite as mature as 4.x it's almost there. It is settling down nicely and a lot of the bugs are being ironed out, even multi-monitor support isn't bad.
srg86 wrote:Sounds like you'll be fine by the time to you from 4.x (I've not used that in years, but I know the likes of RHEL/CentOS still ship with it).
just brew it! wrote:srg86 wrote:Sounds like you'll be fine by the time to you from 4.x (I've not used that in years, but I know the likes of RHEL/CentOS still ship with it).
Kubuntu 14.04 LTS shipped with it, that's what I'm using. Haven't decided if I will upgrade to 16.04 LTS, or just hold out for 18.04 LTS. This will likely depend on whether I do a Ryzen build before 18.04 drops (I often upgrade my hardware and OS together).
Concupiscence wrote:just brew it! wrote:srg86 wrote:Sounds like you'll be fine by the time to you from 4.x (I've not used that in years, but I know the likes of RHEL/CentOS still ship with it).
Kubuntu 14.04 LTS shipped with it, that's what I'm using. Haven't decided if I will upgrade to 16.04 LTS, or just hold out for 18.04 LTS. This will likely depend on whether I do a Ryzen build before 18.04 drops (I often upgrade my hardware and OS together).
I'm in the same boat! My target Ryzen build completion date's around Halloween, which would put me in a good spot to try Xubuntu 17.10 right away... You think it'd be alright to cruise along there until 18.04 drops?
just brew it! wrote:Concupiscence wrote:just brew it! wrote:
Kubuntu 14.04 LTS shipped with it, that's what I'm using. Haven't decided if I will upgrade to 16.04 LTS, or just hold out for 18.04 LTS. This will likely depend on whether I do a Ryzen build before 18.04 drops (I often upgrade my hardware and OS together).
I'm in the same boat! My target Ryzen build completion date's around Halloween, which would put me in a good spot to try Xubuntu 17.10 right away... You think it'd be alright to cruise along there until 18.04 drops?
I tend to avoid the non-LTS releases, even though the applications in the LTS repos can get a little crusty by the time the next LTS drops. If I wanted the kind of bleeding edge churn and heartburn that comes with non-LTS I could just run Debian Unstable... or Fedora.
For the past few years I just stick with LTS (for the overall platform stability), and if there's a particularly egregious bug in an application I use that isn't getting fixed in the official repo, I re-compile that application from upstream source.
Darthutos wrote:With gnome and kde I have no idea where I can find system settings/control panel equivalent. and unity has the notification area with all the icons (e.g. skype et al) where they are familiar to me.