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Canonical to halve Ubuntu support lifetime (bit-tech.net)
3 points by joxie on March 24, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



So, I guess this means they can alienate users faster?

I left because they moved my close button to the left, but my friends stayed because they "got used to it". Same thing happened with unity and upstart. I don't see users can "get used to it" by EOLing your product in 9 months and providing new, possibly breaking, changes every 3. I use Arch Linux now, and I like it because they don't force decisions like that on me, since they try to keep packages vanilla.

They're just giving power users twice the reasons to leave.




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