Comment on: Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

Yes, exactly! That's what it was. I couldn't remember.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28user_interface%29#Privacy_controversy

0 31 Mar 2016 17:38 u/thaddeus in v/programming
Comment on: Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

You know, this kind of makes sense. I remember when Ubuntu switched from Gnome to Unity as the default desktop environment. My memory is bad, but I remember Unity needing to send information about your pc back to canonical for using some search bar / launcher feature and i noped out of that. Not sure how it is now, I switched over to straight Debian, and haven't used unity in forever. I wonder if the plan is to work together to integrate the spyware-esque techniques Microsoft uses now in 10.

1 31 Mar 2016 00:15 u/thaddeus in v/programming
Comment on: Apple's Swift comes to Linux | ZDNet

What is Swift and why is it important that it's coming to Linux? For example, are popular OSX applications written in this language and will Linux users be able to use them?

0 25 Mar 2016 21:15 u/thaddeus in v/programming