Regarding the future of UniGetUI #4444
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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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Yes, but in a few days |
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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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idk who these people are tbh but ima just hope they don't kill the project 🤞(don't have big hopes) |
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yeah that site is full of red flags, disappointing |
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what licenses? |
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Sorry, wrong project! |
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Hi Martí and the Devolutions team, Will translations still be managed via the current JSON files in the repository? 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 |
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oh yeah good i downloaded the last proper release, ain't updating past it |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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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Actually that AI vomit isn't the press release but the blog post. The actual press release has corp speak vomit instead: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/03/10/3253012/0/en/Devolutions-Acquires-UniGetUI-Strengthening-Security-and-Enterprise-Readiness.html |
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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 |
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Sounds good. Icon won't make or break the app but it's a fun touch |
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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 😱
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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We understand that the Avalonia UI still needs some work. We're currently improving it based on user feedback and ongoing testing. |
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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. 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. |
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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.
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. |
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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 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
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.
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.
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.
Again, if you think serious developers won't ever use AI generated code, you have your head in the sand. |
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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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Regarding the future of UniGetUI
Hello,
I have to announce that, from now on, I will not be in charge of developing and maintaining UniGetUI anymore. Devolutions Inc., a Canadian software company, will replace me, and will be in charge of keeping this project alive.
As you may already know, UniGetUI is a side-project I have been developing in my free time. However, nowadays I don’t have as much free time as I had when I started this project. The number of people using UniGetUI has been increasing non-stop (we recently hit 300.000 monthly active users, an all-time maximum). Nevertheless, having more users means I need to invest more time into UniGetUI, and I just can’t keep up.
Therefore, I am very proud to announce that, starting from today, Devolutions Inc. will take over UniGetUI.
The fact that UniGetUI is now owned by Devolutions Inc., does not mean that UniGetUI will stop working as it does today, nor will it not become paid/freemium. UniGetUI will remain Free and Open Source.
The migration process will be transparent for everyone. This repository will be transferred to their organization, and the new official web site will be https://devolutions.net/unigetui/ instead of the old https://marticliment.com/unigetui/. 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.
It has been a pleasure to create and bring UniGetUI to what it has become. I am also very proud to see that I have been able to sell what started as a side project. And I know for sure that the team at Devolutions will do an amazing job with UniGetUI.
You can check their blog post explaining the acquisition here: https://devolutions.net/blog/2026/03/unigetui-enters-its-next-chapter-with-devolutions/
Thank you for everything,
Martí Climent
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