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The time, labor and money spent for unity in the end went to waste.

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Such is the nature of trying new stuff. Fairly often it fails and the effort is at least partially wasted.

It wasn't waste. It was investing time to explore the space of alternatives.

It almost certainly influenced Gnome, so it might not all be wasted.

Gnome shell beta pre-Unity: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JSR8IC77Ub4/TGI7upt62cI/AAAAAAAAA3...

Gnome shell after the Unity release: http://linuxbsdos.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/fedora-gnom...

But what is the reason they still don't have proper window list / dock? Do many people use third party solutions like dock to Taskbar etc that clearly mimic Ubuntu.

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