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		pantalaimon on Dec 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On the Graying of Gnome > also Canonical's influence did this IMHO Huh? Canonical switched away from Gnome with the dreaded version 3 and created their own Unity instead.

bayindirh on Dec 21, 2020 [–]

IIRC they tried to evolve GNOME to what they wanted first, then decided to create unity later.

I may remember wrong though. I don't follow GNOME, Unity and Ubuntu very closely.

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