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Lets use all the spare parts of iPhone 8 and call it iPhone SE gen 2. I get the concept but it would have been nice with a iPhone XR design but in the size of the original iPhone SE. $399 is still reasonable.


This gave me flashbacks to Gnome 2 and how much I loved it.


After Gnome 3 and the abomination of wasted screen real estate that was Unity released I switched to using XFCE on Linux environments and haven't really found anything better since. It's so snappy even on crappy hardware and is customizable enough.


I actually liked unity. Putting the task bar on the side was a great idea at an age when screen started getting flatter and flatter.

The HUD(?) was a great concept allowing easy Dutch within an apps menus.


> Putting the task bar on the side was a great idea at an age when screen started getting flatter and flatter.

That's hardly innovation though since most DEs over the past 2+ decades that I can think of would let you move the taskbar (if they had one) anyway.


Indeed even Windows 95 let you do that.


My problem was with the size of all the UI elements, it seemed to me that a lot of it was designed with a "touch first, M+K second" focus.


That's probably Gnome, Ubuntu was pretty manegeable as a KB+M desktop. I'd say it's as KB+M oriented as OS X. Gnome is more like the Ipad OS.


I agree - taskbar on the side is the best layout. It's very common on Macs and you can do it in Windows 10 now too.

The problem with Unity was that it was buggy as hell, and the launcher was really badly styled. Huge gaps between icons, the search filter was unusable, etc.


Weirdly enough I loved Gnome 2 but for whatever odd reason I prefer some of the other DE's out there. I use Budgie (on Ubuntu) at work though it has quirks, otherwise Gnome 3 is ok or I just go for KDE. It definitely felt like Gnome went from all these amazing customizations to being so limited though.


I was always a KDE 3 kinda guy. I tried TDE, which is to KDE 3 as Mate is to GNOME 2, and … boy, you really appreciate how the Mate project managed to keep everything good about GNOME 2 but modernise at the same time.


That is the idea!


A partnership with OVPN.com would have been much better with their high security focus. However, Mullvad is probably fine.


https://i.redd.it/twe79v68sea01.jpg

Will the history show the future again?


What a misleading chart. It makes it seem like the market drops significantly every January. Yet if you look at a chart of the entire history of Bitcoin, you realize that Bitcoin has never dropped as much as in the last month or so. Not even close.


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