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CLAs and a history of going their own way i suspect.

Then again the "majority" way is largely dictated by a few big projects in and around Fedora, with developers largely on Red Hat payroll.

And the shit slinging didn't really take off until they up and created Unity after a spat with Gnome over the latters future course (afaik). Closely followed with Canonical starting Mir after misrepresenting/misunderstanding where Wayland was going.

So who really knows whats going on...

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> So who really knows whats going on...

Pretty much all of the conversations and disputes have happened on the Internet, so if you are interested you can read the mailing lists, Google+, blog posts etc. in each case. There's no reason why anyone should unless they are interested, but everybody really is free to do so, and then draw their own conclusions.

And you know what, Unity is great.

I like it too. And the funny thing is all beginers I gave unity to liked it better than gnome. Only power users complain about it, which is lame given they are precisely the ones able to install another desktop whenever they want.

I'm pretty happy with it as well... although I swear several times a year I have to fiddle with stuff after updates. Even now, my ~/.cache/upstart/unity.7.log file fills up the disk every few days, and I can't catch what's doing it before it happens... so I just rm -rf ~/.cache every now and then. Since I'm unable to tail it, and don't have a thumb drive to fit a 90GB log file. And it seems to happen if it's in sleep (not off) and I turn off the tv/avr.

I'm actually considering switching my HTPC back to Windows, or trying Debian proper. I don't spend much time in unity there, mostly Kodi, and sometimes Chrome, but the DE matters little to me. I run Windows, mac, and linux (ubuntu unity) regularly.

Sorry for veering off into a rant... All around I actually do like Unity though.

I had the same problem with some Kodi addons being the culprits. Updated python-openssl and python-cryptography to the packages from the debian repo, disabled some theme/addon helper that was running in the addons settings and the unity7.log stopped filling my disk. Let me see if I find the link to the bug on Launchpad.

Edit:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/447828

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1636573

I find it completely unusable. The first thing I do after installing Ubuntu is installing XFCE or Cinnamon. Just the fact that you had to sacrifice a newborn to start two instances of the same application, an extremely common user action (I don't know if it's still the case now) shows that whoever designed it is incompetent.

Unity from a user's point of view is great. Too bad it requires patched upstream libraries, so it does not run on other distributions.

Do wonder why those patches are not accepted upstream...

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