<story><title>Ubuntu 17.10 Final Beta Is Ready For Testing</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Ubuntu-17.10-Final-Beta</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pasta</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m using (x)ubuntu for over 10 years and every version there are strange problems that still exist today.&lt;p&gt;For example now my volume control uses 5 steps at once instead of one.
So every version I have to search the net for some command line command to fix things.&lt;p&gt;I wont leave Linux anytime soon but I can imagine people get sick of this.&lt;p&gt;Ubuntu is great, but maybe the priority should be flawless instead of yet another window manager&amp;#x2F;desktop environment.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ubuntu 17.10 Final Beta Is Ready For Testing</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Ubuntu-17.10-Final-Beta</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dis-sys</author><text>10+ years full time Ubuntu user here, I have to say that although I am happy for the fact that Unity is gone, it is too late as I have moved to xfce4.&lt;p&gt;The decision to move to Unity was bad, users choose Linux desktop because they want something simple, something more under their control. The whole unity desktop experience together with that everything is searchable promise is just not the right selling point for that audience.&lt;p&gt;Now many many years in xfce4, that is the exact desktop environment I want. no over engineering rubbish, no forced features, no fancy UI pretending to be cool&amp;#x2F;smart, just the essential stuff that actually work. If I am going to spend most of time in terminals + chrome, why forcing me to have a fat desktop environment? gnome seems to be fine, used it for many many years before the Unity joke&amp;#x2F;xfce4, but it is still too fat and it is too late.</text></comment>