A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu
I have a strong dislike for systemd, so while I&#x27;m really sorry that upstart &quot;lost&quot; the fight, Ubuntu gained a lot of respect in my eyes with the decision to go with the rest and avoid unnecessary fragmentation. This could have <i>easily</i> ended up another as another community rift, slowing down everybody along the way.<p>Now they do it again with Wayland&#x2F;Mir! It actually takes a significant amount of both balls and goodwill to give up on the product that you invested so much into for the sake of aligning better with your open source community. Bravo!<p>FWIW, I too would like to keep the DE experience of Unity, and especially the Dash panel and shortcuts. If that expose-text-search could scan non-focused browser tabs that would be a killer feature, but that&#x27;s for the other thread.<p>The idea of &quot;Let&#x27;s simply ask HN users what they think&quot; is a gem, that I suspect will now make it into many PMs&#x27; playbooks ;)