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0 pointstmtvl1y ago0 comments

As does the unnamed LXDE bird, and whatever mascots Cinnamon, MATE, Deepin, Pantheon, Budgie, and Enlightenment have.

EDIT: Almost forgot about Unity, which has arisen from the ashes.

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I still miss Unity's HUD. Imo, Unity was perfect. It has a good balance of beauty and efficiency out of the box.

Unity's (at least when I started using it with 14.04) UX, screen space usage and performance was so good. Global or locally integrated menu bar and making it searchable were great decisions. I'd much rather canonical had been successful with desktop & mobile consumer OS and upstart rather than with snappy

tmtvlOP1y ago

Have you tried the new Ubuntu Unity? It's not the same as it was back in 2013 (when I last used Unity), but it's still nice in various ways.

a1o1y ago

Unity 8 is also still back in development https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/lomiri

tmtvlOP1y ago

My current phone is a Volla 22 with Ubuntu Touch, it's pretty good (although the battery doesn't last me a day, sadly). To be honest, though, I kinda miss the scopes of the OG Ubuntu Touch.

WD-421y ago

Still a part of the Qt/GTK duopoly

tmtvlOP1y ago

To quote grand*4 parent:

> Gnome / Plasma duopoly

LXQt uses Qt but it's not KDE, Cinnamon, MATE,... use Gtk, but they're not GNOME. And Enlightenment uses EFL, so it isn't part of any Qt/Gtk duopoly.

rc001y ago

This duopoly isn't going to be broken up because of Rust. Linus recently said that developers aren't taking to it for the kernel.[1] There are serious issues with Rust that bar any real adoption from the overall complexity (async, procedural macros, unsafe ergonomics) to the problematic toolchain (too many dependencies and slow compile times).

1. https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-talks-ai-rust-a...

panick21_1y ago

Linus the guy who was against debugger and source control. He is dealing with long time C users working on a C project that just recently has allowed Rust, many work for companies that dont use Rust.

Meanwhile Oxide is building a whole datacenter infrastructure in rust including firelmware, network kernel models and store subsystems, hyperwiser userlabnds in or on Illumos. And say almost universially possitive things.

The people who make cosmic also sell laptops with Rust written firmware. Some of them also develop Redox OS, a Rust OS. They in general love it.

But I guess because mass adoption in Linux hasnt happen it will be impossible to create a new popular UI toolkit.

Gtfo.

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alskdj211y ago

I still miss Unity's HUD. Imo, Unity was perfect. It has a good balance of beauty and efficiency out of the box.

schmorptron1y ago

tmtvlOP1y ago

Have you tried the new Ubuntu Unity? It's not the same as it was back in 2013 (when I last used Unity), but it's still nice in various ways.

a1o1y ago

Unity 8 is also still back in development https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/lomiri

tmtvlOP1y ago

My current phone is a Volla 22 with Ubuntu Touch, it's pretty good (although the battery doesn't last me a day, sadly). To be honest, though, I kinda miss the scopes of the OG Ubuntu Touch.

WD-421y ago

Still a part of the Qt/GTK duopoly

tmtvlOP1y ago

To quote grand*4 parent:

> Gnome / Plasma duopoly

LXQt uses Qt but it's not KDE, Cinnamon, MATE,... use Gtk, but they're not GNOME. And Enlightenment uses EFL, so it isn't part of any Qt/Gtk duopoly.

rc001y ago

1. https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-talks-ai-rust-a...

panick21_1y ago

Linus the guy who was against debugger and source control. He is dealing with long time C users working on a C project that just recently has allowed Rust, many work for companies that dont use Rust.

The people who make cosmic also sell laptops with Rust written firmware. Some of them also develop Redox OS, a Rust OS. They in general love it.

But I guess because mass adoption in Linux hasnt happen it will be impossible to create a new popular UI toolkit.

Gtfo.

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