What's your favorite official flavor?

[chanath]

I didn’t vote because the poll only provides “official” flavors as options.

Even the most official Ubuntu itself is missing…

[wxl]

Even the most official Ubuntu itself is missing…

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t consider “unsweetened” a flavor.

That said, this insistence of making default Ubuntu as something separate from the flavors is reflected in many pages, including one easily accessed through the main downloads page and the page on the wiki.

[flocculant]

Why would Ubuntu be included in a list of flavours - it isn’t one, it’s Ubuntu.

Not really sure why people feel the need to get confrontational in a light hearted topic - then again I guess having been around the community for many years - nothing really changes.

[chanath]

A flavour can be quite bitter…so, the Gnome (flavour) had gone missing…

[deadflowr]

I didn’t vote because the poll only provides “official” flavors as options. If the poll had included an “unofficial/remix” option, that option would have received my vote.

As for the available options, I’m torn between Ubuntu MATE (for what it is now, and for the great team that develops it) and Ubuntu Budgie (for what it will likely become once Budgie 11 is available). I wish I could split my vote between those two.

I’m in the same boat, sort of.
I like Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Mate.
It’s hard to pick one over the other.
They all do what they do well.
Good to have tough choices I guess.
Bad for the poll, though.

[GizmoChicken]

As for the available options, I’m torn between Ubuntu MATE (for what it is now, and for the great team that develops it) and Ubuntu Budgie (for what it will likely become once Budgie 11 is available). I wish I could split my vote between those two.

Hmm. The recent announcement from Solus regarding the “Budgie Desktop project [being] merged back into the Solus Project umbrella, making it a distinct Solus project once more” causes me to wonder about the future of Ubuntu Budgie. Until the sitution is clarified, my vote goes to Ubuntu MATE.

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Interesting, @fossfreedom? It may just be that it’ll take more patching to ensure it runs in Ubuntu / upstream commits that don’t break the experience in Solus.

[fossfreedom]

Think you are reading too much into the statement. Budgie has always been open and continues to be made available to all. There is no reason to expect anything detrimental to occur for any distro.

[GizmoChicken]

Think you are reading too much into the statement. Budgie has always been open and continues to be made available to all. There is no reason to expect anything detrimental to occur for any distro.

That is welcome news.

The announcement also stated that “all previous decisions will now be re-evaluated (Qt? Wayland? gtk4? etc).”

I hope that Budgie will continue with its plans to migrate to Qt (as originally planned for Budgie 11) and add Wayland support, ideally relying on Mir as its default Wayland compositor.

[paulw2u]

A flavour can be quite bitter…so, the Gnome (flavour) had gone missing…

If anyone’s missing Ubuntu GNOME then all they have to do is install Ubuntu and add the vanilla-gnome-desktop package and they have what Ubuntu GNOME would have looked like if it still existed at the time of the 18.04 release.

I’m only posting this as I’ve come across a few users on the forums that don’t know that this option is available. to them. May be it should be publicised more? Anyway, Ubuntu GNOME as a flavour will cease to exist once support of 16.04 ends in April 2019.

@wxl, so why wasn’t Ubuntu GNOME included in the poll?

Edit: it was, as an inactive flavour.

[GizmoChicken]

so why wasn’t Ubuntu GNOME included in the poll?

Edit: it was, as an inactive flavour.

Actually, Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.4 LTS is supported until April 2019.

[eeickmeyer]

I’m only posting this as I’ve come across a few users on the forums that don’t know that this option is available. to them. May be it should be publicised more?

It was during 17.10. Things like that don’t simply disappear, and it astounds me how little attention OMG! Ubuntu gets as a resource.

[paulw2u]

Actually, Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.4 LTS is supported until April 2019.

Yes, I know that. Which is why I said…

Anyway, Ubuntu GNOME as a flavour will cease to exist once support of 16.04 ends in April 2019.

…something that you failed to quote.

Anyway, let’s not get too serious about this in what was just an attempt to raise something that isn’t known by everyone on another officially supported site, i.e. the Ubuntu Forums.

and it astounds me how little attention OMG! Ubuntu gets as a resource.

Other sites too, including the Ubuntu Wiki and Official Ubuntu Documentation pages.

[GizmoChicken]

…something that you failed to quote.

Yep, in all honestly, I missed that bit in your comment. Rather, my eyes were drawn to your edit. Sorry about that.

Still, I think it’s worth emphasizing that Ubuntu GNOME, although deprecated, will remain supported until April 2019. The term “inactive” (as used in the poll and by you) may lead some to believe otherwise.

Anyway, let’s not get too serious about this in what was just an attempt to raise something that isn’t known by everyone . . .

Agreed. That’s what I’m attempting to do.

[GizmoChicken]

If you’re confused about what flavors are, see the wiki.

I’m not confused by what the flavors are. But I’m confused by your use of the term “inactive” to describe flavors that will be supported until April 2019. The term “deprecated” (as used in the wiki) would be better.

[wxl]

Yeah, Ubuntu GNOME is deprecated. No further development is being made towards that particular flavor, thus I’m calling in inactive. If ya’ll want to split hairs, knock yourself out, but either way you cut it, it’s not a thing. Here’s some evidence:

• The team announced they’d be joining the Ubuntu Desktop team.
• The development team on Launchpad is gone.
• The #ubuntu-gnome IRC channel is unregistered.
• Twitter and Facebook and Google Plus and Slack are inactive, which leaves the mailing list as the only real support option out of all the listed options.

tl;dr there are no people really working on the “Ubuntu GNOME” flavor and it’s questionable how well “supported” it is for Xenial.

And while you’re being pedantic, don’t forget Mythbuntu and Edubuntu are in the same boat. The former provides 3 year support and their last release was Xenial, while the latter provides 5 year support and their last release was Trusty.

[GizmoChicken]

there are no people really working on the “Ubuntu GNOME” flavor and it’s questionable how well “supported” it is for Xenial.

Are you asserting that the statement regarding Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.4 LTS being “supported until April 2019” (found on wiki and on the download page) is misleading?

If the statement is misleading, then the webpages should be updated.

[wxl]

Are you asserting that the statement regarding Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.4 LTS being “supported until April 2019” (found on wiki and on the download page) is misleading?

Based on the evidence above, what do you think?

If the statement is misleading, then the webpages should be updated.

Feel free. The wiki is open for any member of ~ubuntu-wiki-editors to edit.

[GizmoChicken]

there are no people really working on the “Ubuntu GNOME” flavor and it’s questionable how well “supported” it is for Xenial.

In response to the above comment, I asked whether statements claiming that Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.4 LTS is “supported until April 2019” (found on wiki and on the download page) are misleading. Rather than answer, @wxl asked me what I think.

Unfortunately, I’m not qualified to determine whether the statements are accurate or misleading. That’s why I asked.

@jbicha, honest question, in your opinion, are statements claiming that Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.4 LTS is “supported until April 2019” accurate or misleading?

[mozit]

@GizmoChicken , with all the respect, Please stop hijacking this post with irrelevant petty arguments.