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A perfect marriage: YOU and Ubuntu 16.04

thames

About 10 years ago it was Gnome versus KDE, and before that it was VI versus Emacs. And before that it was Bourne shell versus Korn shell versus C shell versus Almquist shell. And let us not forget C versus Pascal, or 6502 versus Z80.

Countless distros have been shipping System-d, and yet there is a distinct lack of articles in el Reg about any notable disasters caused by it. That includes by the way previous releases of Ubuntu. It's quite possible that System-d is indeed crap, but I'm not going to stay awake at night worrying about it.

Unity works fine and is easy to use. The complaints seem to come from people who can't seem to find anything "wrong" with it other than they want the launcher on the bottom and the menus in the application window, the former of which is now a configuration option, and the latter which has been one for several years.

It seems like in this industry that you're not really l33t unless you use something different from the mainstream, and that if that once obscure thing becomes popular, then it's immediately denounced as being "crap" and the denouncers have moved on to something more obscure.

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