Thank you so much for your amazing work. UniGetUI is one of the best apps available on Windows and is the first thing I install on a new system. I'm glad that you've found a company that you trust to carry on with your project. All the best with the future!
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You certainly earned it Martí Climent (@marticliment), well done! I would not so readily say such if it were not true that the project will remain open-source and under the MIT licence. Very glad to hear it. Let's hope the new stewards will keep their word; all too often these things go sideways at best. Thank you for you efforts, and good luck with your future projects!
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Thank you for the countless amount of hours and work you've poured into this project and offering it as an OSS for everyone to benefit from.
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Thank you very much for all your hard work! 🧡
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Thank you Marti, I just discovered and started using UniGetUI and in love with it. It is the first thing I open up when I start up my machine. 💖
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Congratulations, Martí, and thank you for the amazing work you’ve done with UniGetUI. It’s impressive what you built, and I’m really glad to see the project continue in good hands while remaining free and open source.
One question: will current UniGetUI installs auto-update to the new Devolutions-branded v2026.1.0 release, or is a manual update/reinstall required?
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One question: will current UniGetUI installs auto-update to the new Devolutions-branded v2026.1.0 release, or is a manual update/reinstall required?
Yes, but in a few days
After seeing this AI slop announcement, the future looks bleak...
Can the people at devolutions not even write an announcement without using AI?
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yeah that site is full of red flags, disappointing
the app has been ruined for me. i loved it because of the ui, which is now deprecated + being removed
You need to stop whining and report objectively what is wrong with the new UI. I think Devolutions is moving the app in the right direction (dropping a UI framework that is doomed to disappear for a promising and well-established one, that is cross-platform on top of that) and they're fixing things as we report them.
So stop crying and report what is broken. Be factual, with screenshots.
nobody is crying. this isn't reddit.
They stated earlier
"We don't plan to remove the Classic interface until the Avalonia UI reaches feature parity and is considered complete."
so they have considered the current UI complete.
but all I see is the it being laggy and, the edges of font and UI being pixelated.
Well a lot of people are surely complaining.
I don't have those issues, maybe you should create an issue?
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Hi Martí and the Devolutions team,
First of all, thank you Martí for everything you've built — UniGetUI is truly an amazing project.
As a translator contributing to the Italian localization, I'd like to ask: what will happen to the translation workflow going forward?
Specifically:
Will translations still be managed via the current JSON files in the repository?
Is there a plan to migrate to a dedicated localization platform (e.g. Weblate, Crowdin, Transifex)?
Will existing translators be able to continue contributing in the same way?
Thanks in advance for any clarification!
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hopefully someone will fork the repo and maintain a non ai slop version untouched by this ai slop company
Not only translations are now made by AI. When looking at their agents tool chain It seems also future development is made by AI at Devolutions. No wonder the first releases were broken.
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yeah good i downloaded the last proper release, ain't updating past it
Hi - sorry about seeing this specific thread late, I have been mostly monitoring GitHub issues in the past few days. I have created a separate discussion regarding translations in UniGetUI moving forward, feel free to chime in: #4510
No one is going to create pull requests, when there were approved people with an platform of exact changes, without any AI slop, which is now murked in with the real native texts, while there is no way to even compare the original texts, as they were Spanish/Catalonian/English based. There is a reason why „tolgge/crowdin/weblate“ and more exist, „GitHub“ is not an translation platform and replacing with AI is even worse.
Noted. I'm not ruling out re-introducing a platform like tolgee in the future, but for the short term, I either needed to migrate and onboard tolgee as a translation platform, or replace it with something else quickly to avoid having contributions that wouldn't get integrated. My goal is really to have 100% coverage, even if some translations are inaccurate
Appreciating Martí and UniGetUI, UniGetUI is the BEST app management software with a UI that I've ever used.
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Great job, Marti! We'll miss you for sure, but that is a dream come true, I know! Thank you so much for bringing this project to life!
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Thanks for your work.
Never heard of Devolutions, lets hope they do a good job.
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Thank you for your service.
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Great work in building Uniget. Best of luck on your next chapter
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Hi Martí,
Thank you for your work. I’m sorry to hear that you are stepping out of this amazing project. About Devolutions Inc., I have to say I’m honestly disappointed to see how translations are being handled now. The statement that all supported languages are “100% complete with AI” feels misleading, especially since community contributions were never fully credited.
From what I can see, there haven’t been commits reflecting the actual maintenance or improvement of translations since my contributions, yet the project now presents itself as fully complete. This gives users the impression of accuracy and polish that doesn’t match reality, while erasing the work human translators invested.
Translation is not just about filling in strings to hit a number. It requires context, consistency, and care, things contributors put in and deserve recognition for. I hope they will reconsider how contributors are credited and how these changes are communicated publicly.
Best regards,
Luca Crăciun
Update: They finally added the credits to our work.
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Thank you very much Martí for all your hard work on creating this, It's truly a superb product, and you deserve the break (and the remuneration you have hopefully received) for providing us with such a great service.
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Congratulations Martí! Unfortunately I can't say I'm all that interested in riding out the stereotypical honest-OSS-to-enterprise-slop pipeline. The "its not this, it is that," and em-dash AI regurgitation in the press release are setting even lower expectations than the usual commercialization/crapification process. Will be searching for a fork and if one can't be found, returning to the winget command line. Was great while it lasted!
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I saw the new icon today, then I saw the announcement. The new icon is already bothering me, it's a downgrade for sure. I really hope it's not a sign for things to come, especially after the response here: #4832
I know it's a small thing, but I think these matter too and I saw too many corporate acquired projects go the wrong way too many times. At least with open source there's always a possibility for a fork.
But anyway we understand, that it's not easy to maintain a big project like this. Thank you for your work, you made something really special and sorely needed for this ecosystem. All the best in your future endeavours!
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The icon Martí had was 100% recognizable and worked well on both light and dark themes; I don't know what led you to change it for one that you clearly didn't test enough. I use a dark theme on my Windows 11, and this current icon, especially when it has a white border, looks like a gift package like the ones that come in the applications that spam users so much these days. My first impulse upon seeing that icon in my taskbar is to look for the context menu to close it and open my antivirus to see what malware slipped in.
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We've received a lot of feedback about the new icon, one adjustment we've already made that will go in the next release is that we've removed the white halo around the icon, and made it take all the available space. It should look better with that change
We've received a lot of feedback about the new icon, one adjustment we've already made that will go in the next release is that we've removed the white halo around the icon, and made it take all the available space. It should look better with that change
Sounds good. Icon won't make or break the app but it's a fun touch
Thanks for all your hard work, guys. Welp, time to start hunting for other open-source alternatives now. Silver lining though— at least itdidn't get sold to one of those data-mining companies looking to make a quick buck.
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The issue tracker is full of bug reports with no or just a single reply now. Is UniGetUI abandonded already?
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I don't know how I missed it 😱
The only noticeable difference will be that, instead of some random university student, the team behind UniGetUI will now have the knowledge, resources and time needed to be able to deliver a solid product.
UnigetUI would not be here, would not be so highly regarded in the community if you were just "random university student". Thank you Martí Climent (@marticliment) for all your work, dedication and keeping this project active, growing and being the tool it is today.
First time hearing about Devolutions and I am rather sceptic, especially that few already voiced their concerns above...but I really, REALLY hope thy will prove me wrong..
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Please dont **** this up Devolutions - maybe be the first company to buy a great service and not ruin it - not hopeful right now but will give it a chance before moving on
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I mean, in the first commit, Devolutions added the file "AGENTS.md". In the first commit! This should tell you everything about their intentions.
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There's a reason why I pushed hard against renewing the license for their Remote Desktop Manager at the company I worked for a few years ago. What a laggy s.... and now the UI of UniGetUI is laggy as well. What a coincidence! Who would've thought? Setting an experimental UI as the default just screams incompetence. Sorry to be blunt. It remains to be seen whether it will improve, but in my limited experience working in IT - I doubt it. And I'm not some grumpy old man. I'm not even 30!
At least Martí was competent enough to not use ML generated code. I will stay on v.3.3.7 until it doesn't work anymore.
I mean, in the first commit, Devolutions added the file "AGENTS.md". In the first commit! This should tell you everything about their intentions. 171298e
There's a reason why I pushed hard against renewing the license for their Remote Desktop Manager at the company I worked for a few years ago. What a laggy s.... and now the UI of UniGetUI is laggy as well. What a coincidence! Who would've thought? Setting an experimental UI as the default just screams incompetence. Sorry to be blunt. It remains to be seen whether it will improve, but in my limited experience working in IT - I doubt it. And I'm not some grumpy old man. I'm not even 30!
At least Martí was competent enough to not use ML generated code. I will stay on v.3.3.7 until it doesn't work anymore.
I know I started the discussion about the software being ruined and massively overreacted, but after using it on some of my Windows machines for a few days, I appreciate their attempt to fix the UI lag, even though the UI design suffered for it.
On machines with limited CPU, the new UniGetUI actually performs better than before. I freaked out a few days ago because there's always the same pattern: First, there's a good open-source app. Then, the original maintainer steps away from the project. Next, a random company that nobody has heard of before steps in and takes over. They immediately change things like the icon and UI, and at the same time, they introduce a subscription model that eliminates the reason we started using it in the first place.
Yes, it's currently open source and free, but will it always be? I have no idea. I'm not an expert on FOSS licensing.
The software is already ruined, the UI screams AI slop after the update that dropped today(?) Even my own AI slop apps look better than what they set free there.
I don't know what you're talking about. They're trying to fix the UI responsiveness issue. They did manage to do that. We'll have to see where they end up with the design elements. I saw some Avalonia UI paths during the install process. I can't recall if they were using Avalonia previously. Avalonia is fast, but kind of underdeveloped, so if they jumped over to a new UI toolkit, I'm kind of impressed it doesn't look shittier.
EDIT: and I am informed that Marti was already working on an Avalonia port concurrently to maintaining the old WinUI version. So you guys need to give it a chill. Marti is in support of this architectural transition. Just give the Devolutions guys some time to tweak the UI
FingerMove Your own AI slop apps look better because they're almost definitely choosing to use a web framework inside of an Electron app, or raw-dogging the CSS in an Electron app, instead of creating something in a more native UI toolkit.
Technically, you're right because most of the apps I tried to code were replacements for Windows software that doesn't yet exist for Linux. I usually use apps that employ Go + Wails, but I experimented with QML and Qt6. However, I'm probably far worse at software development than the new company that took over UniGetUI.
Thanks for the Avalonia UI explanation, though, I didn't really know this existed. And sorry for any weird English, it's not my native language.
I don't work for Devolutions, I just know them since long ago for using Remote Desktop Manager (Free). In my opinion, you guys are being childish.
I mean, in the first commit, Devolutions added the file "AGENTS.md". In the first commit! This should tell you everything about their intentions. 171298e
I think this shows they're using AI for development in a reasonable and careful manner. If you are in software development, surely you must know that for many enterprises, AI is becoming more and more unavoidable. And I don't say that a as lover of AI for coding, as I myself use it scarcely, but I recognize its potential. Using AI for software development doesn't necessarily imply slop AI code. If you think so yourself, this shows you don't know much about coding and should not judge based on the presence of an AGENTS.md file.
There's a reason why I pushed hard against renewing the license for their Remote Desktop Manager at the company I worked for a few years ago. What a laggy s....
Well I'm using RDM for a long time, and I admit that it's a laggy software. But what other software does RDP, VNC, SSH... as well as RDM? If you know one, I'm all ears. My experience with Devolutions in their forum is that: they listen to their user, they're nice, comprehensive and they've implemented a lot of feature requests I've made over the years. IMO, that's not the case for many commercial enterprises.
and now the UI of UniGetUI is laggy as well. What a coincidence! Who would've thought?
I've not noticed that. In fact I've always found the WinUI3 interface bloated, and I do think migrating toward Avalonia is a great step for the future of UnigetUI.
Setting an experimental UI as the default just screams incompetence.
That I can agree with. The WinUI3 UI didn't have lots of bugs, and if the new Avalonia UI is not ready, it should not be made the default yet.
At least Martí was competent enough to not use ML generated code.
Again, if you think serious developers won't ever use AI generated code, you have your head in the sand.
That I can agree with. The WinUI3 UI didn't have lots of bugs, and if the new Avalonia UI is not ready, it should not be made the default yet.
They didn't just make it default. they removed WinUI altogether while barely fixing Avalonia.
So this comment here from two weeks ago is already outdated and now feels disingenuous:
We understand that the Avalonia UI still needs some work. We're currently improving it based on user feedback and ongoing testing.
In the meantime, there's an option under User interface preferences to switch back to the classic WinUI interface if you prefer it.
But hey at least we now have whimsical cartoons nobody asked for that can't be disabled.
But hey at least we now have whimsical cartoons nobody asked for that can't be disabled.
Settings > User interface preferences > Show illustrations on package list
People need to stop whining about devs using LLMs, there's nothing wrong with using LLMs for assistance, it's only bad when they are used blindly.
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Thanks for the work.
Regarding Devolution, I think UnigetUI will be split into two versions: an open-source version and a paid version for businesses. The paid version will likely include modules to avoid significantly modifying the original code.
But from experience, I think that's what will happen.
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We have no intention of making a paid version of UniGetUI, and UniGetUI will remain open source.
That's not what I meant. I meant that the core software would remain open source, but a version using paid extensions would be released.
So, for individuals, the software remains free and open source, while the extension for managing packages in businesses will be a paid service.
That's how I envision the future of UnigetUI and the cost-effectiveness of the resources used to continue developing the software.
please stop, people already complaining about the ui, doesn't need infantilising as well
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